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On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 07:50 -0500, Shawn Berg wrote: > With the frequesncy of DNS look-ups, DNS logging is not enabled. Once > I did enable the logging of DNS requests and cleared our local DNS > cache, I not only saw the outbound DNS request, I also found the > cached entry in our DNS server. I guess I assumed this was a straight > http connection to the update server... > > Thanks for helping me understand the sa-update process a little > better... No problem, I'm glad this explained what you see. :) I wonder what connections you have been seeing before, though. Please also see the documentation on the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates I seem to remember the wiki explains the update process and how DNS is involved. Can't find it though. Maybe I am just confusing it with list posts. guenther ________________________________________________________________________ > From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Err, what connection? If I'm not terribly mistaken, sa-update uses DNS, > and there will be no other connection made if there are no updates. If > you're running a caching DNS locally, you likely either will see no > outgoing connection at all with rapid, repeated sa-update calls, or the > connection will be made by your DNS server, not sa-update. -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
