http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
Summary: remove completewhois DNSBL lookup
Product: Spamassassin
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P5
Component: Rules
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(in a thread about DNS timeouts and long scan times)
Mark Martinec writes:
> On Sunday August 26 2007 22:05:58 Jeff Chan wrote:
> > FWIW completewhois.com and it's host network elan.net appears to be
> > unreachable. completewhois has the HIB blacklist, and probably others.
>
> Right, all queries to combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com
> are still timing out, which, depending on rbl_timeout setting,
> can have a significant impact on the average elapsed time of
> a scan. Most of the Saturday it was worse still, likely some
> other RBL server being down too.
If completewhois is still down, and has been having trouble since
people started making comments about it on the users list, we
should probably remove it. It's only catching 0.3482% of spams,
with a FP rate of 0.0590%:
STATISTICS-set3.txt: 0.244 0.3482 0.0590 0.855 0.57 0.40
RCVD_IN_WHOIS_INVALID
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