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:
jrudd@...]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:17 PM
To: Brent Kennedy
Cc:
users@...
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:
maillists@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 9:39 AM
> To:
users@...
> 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
>
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