Hi All,
The require_resolvable_fromhost plugin returns DENYSOFT when a host doesn't
resolve. This makes sense with a well behaved host. But I've noticed that
some hosts that don't resolve will continuously retry and never seem to
disconnect. Sometimes this goes on for days. Is there a good rea
On Jul 29, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Larry Nedry wrote:
The require_resolvable_fromhost plugin returns DENYSOFT when a host
doesn't
resolve. This makes sense with a well behaved host. But I've
noticed that
some hosts that don't resolve will continuously retry and never seem
to
disconnect.
The
On 2009-07-29 15:14:29 -0500, Larry Nedry wrote:
> The require_resolvable_fromhost plugin returns DENYSOFT when a host doesn't
> resolve. This makes sense with a well behaved host.
I'm not so sure about that. The idea was that returning DENYSOFT gives
both the sender and the recipient a few days
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Larry Nedry wrote:
Hi All,
The require_resolvable_fromhost plugin returns DENYSOFT when a host doesn't
resolve. This makes sense with a well behaved host. But I've noticed that
some hosts that don't resolve will continuously retry and never seem to
disconnect. Sometimes
Charlie Brady wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Larry Nedry wrote:
Hi All,
The require_resolvable_fromhost plugin returns DENYSOFT when a host doesn't
resolve. This makes sense with a well behaved host. But I've noticed that
some hosts that don't resolve will continuously retry and never seem to
d
On 7/30/09 at 11:18 AM -0400 Charlie Brady wrote:
>Do they really fail to disconnect *and* continuously retry? That
>combination seems umlikely to me.
Of course this has caused my log files to rollover much faster than usual
but I did capture the logs for a stretch of 6.0 hours for a single
connec
On 7/30/09 at 3:37 PM -0500 Larry Nedry wrote:
>This "woodpeckering" has been going on non-stop for the last 4 days. On
>average each connection was retrying about 25 times per minute. At its
>peaks there were about 30 connections, each retrying at about 60 times per
>minute.
>
>On 7/30/09 at 12:
On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:41, Larry Nedry wrote:
> Here's my patch for require_resolvable_fromhost. As Chris Lewis suggested,
> delaying rejection until the RCPT TO hook solved the problem.
Thank you for making a git repository with the change; I pulled it into my
branch.
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