Yes, I use a local DNS server.. Which does cache. It was a little while ago, so I don't know if I still have mail logs that I can look at.
-Brent -----Original Message----- From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:17 PM To: Brent Kennedy Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Botnet 0.8 Plugin is available (FINALLY!!!) I use it on a large installation (up to a 2 million messages per day). Do you have at least a caching name server running on the hosts where you do the scanning? It does do quite a few DNS checks, which could/would affect latency. Brent Kennedy wrote: > I don't mean to rain on the botnet plugin parade, but when I tried it, > my mail queue slowed to a crawl. Mail became backed up pretty quickly > with processing taking upwards of 10 minutes a message. > > Is there something in the config that I missed or it this plugin only > meant for small installations? > > Thanks > > -Brent > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 9:39 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Botnet 0.8 Plugin is available (FINALLY!!!) > > John Rudd wrote on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:39:07 -0700: > >> http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet-0.8.tar > > Hi John, just checking out your plugin the first time. I notice that > it just untars all files to the current location. It would be nice if > you could encapsulate it in a directory, so that untarring creates a > directory of the same name as the filename (without the .tar suffix, of course). > Most tarred up distributions do this and if one doesn't and there are > a lot of other files in the same directory it's a nuisance to > "collect" your files. > > Kai > > -- > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > > > >
