Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matthias Leisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I couldn't say for sure what a safe level of queries would be. If I were > > to guess, I'd say somewhere under 20,000 per 24 hour period. > > Speaking for dnswl.org, we consider sites[*] with > 100k queries per 24 > hour as "heavy users" who should r

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Matthias Leisi
> I couldn't say for sure what a safe level of queries would be. If I were > to guess, I'd say somewhere under 20,000 per 24 hour period. Speaking for dnswl.org, we consider sites[*] with > 100k queries per 24 hour as "heavy users" who should rsync our data and run a local mirror. 20k will only s

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:26:03AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > > That's great if we use the zone machine for DNS, that doesn't really work > > for > > individuals running on our own machines... ;) > > Do you run a simple caching named on your machine? No, I run a full multi domain named on my

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Matt Kettler wrote: Which also brings up a second issue. Should we disable Spamhaus by default as we've done in the past for razor and DCC? They're no longer "free for everyone", and actually even reasonably small networks can't use them for free (100 user limit). This has been on my mind for

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > That's great if we use the zone machine for DNS, that doesn't really work for > individuals running on our own machines... ;) > Do you run a simple caching named on your machine? If so, it would be really easy to add a forwarding zone to forward all queries for a p

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Michael Parker wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Michael Parker wrote: Maybe we should add a --force-reuse that would ignore any msgs that can't be reused. I'm thinking that should be the only option for reuse. This is how it originally worked, but a large portion of the spam traps had neve

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Parker
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > Michael Parker wrote: > >> Maybe we should add a --force-reuse that would ignore any msgs that >> can't be reused. > > I'm thinking that should be the only option for reuse. > This is how it originally worked, but a large portion of the spam traps had never been run

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:16:21PM -0400, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: If we do more frequent --net mass-checks we may individually run the chance of being blocked by the providers of the (URI)DNSBLs such as Spamhaus. Has anyone been blocked to date? Probably not given th

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Michael Parker wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Are the hit-rates of the lists high enough that the results that aren't cached by the use of --reuse low enough to fall under the block triggering level? Either way, I guess we should get around to figuring out a way of caching the non-hits. I'

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:16:21PM -0400, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > If we do more frequent --net mass-checks we may individually run the > chance of being blocked by the providers of the (URI)DNSBLs such as > Spamhaus. > > Has anyone been blocked to date? Probably not given the once a week >

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Duane Hill
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 at 22:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Has anyone been blocked to date? Probably not given the once a week frequency. Not speaking of mass-checks, I'm guessing it's a pretty high ratio. Our servers are blocked. The average 5xx rejections in a given 24 hour period

Re: net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Parker
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > Random thoughts on frequent re-scoring mass-checks... > > If we do more frequent --net mass-checks we may individually run the > chance of being blocked by the providers of the (URI)DNSBLs such as > Spamhaus. > > Has anyone been blocked to date? Probably not given the

net mass-checks triggering (URI)DNSBL provider blocks?

2007-09-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Random thoughts on frequent re-scoring mass-checks... If we do more frequent --net mass-checks we may individually run the chance of being blocked by the providers of the (URI)DNSBLs such as Spamhaus. Has anyone been blocked to date? Probably not given the once a week frequency. Are the h

[Bug 5557] temp files not removed

2007-09-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5557 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Host alert: spamassassin.zones.apache.org is UP

2007-09-05 Thread nagios
*** ASF Nagios *** Notification Type: RECOVERY Host: spamassassin.zones.apache.org Address: 140.211.11.80 State: UP Info: $ Date/Time: Wed Sept 5 22:19:59 BST 2007

Host alert: spamassassin.zones.apache.org is DOWN

2007-09-05 Thread nagios
*** ASF Nagios *** Notification Type: PROBLEM Host: spamassassin.zones.apache.org Address: 140.211.11.80 State: DOWN Info: $ Date/Time: Wed Sept 5 22:19:48 BST 2007

[Bug 5599] Dns Resolver - rotating servers/load distribution

2007-09-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5599 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-09-05 04:11 --- noted via mail: 'From: Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5599 /etc/resolv.conf provides for round-

Re: [Bug 5599] Dns Resolver - rotating servers/load distribution

2007-09-05 Thread Per Jessen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5599 > > /etc/resolv.conf provides for round-robining of name-servers >From the man-page: options: rotate : sets RES_ROTATE in _res.options, which causes round robin selection of nameservers from among those l