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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2007/08/13 14:09:23 UTC

Re: Dns Resolver problem

Pawel Sasin writes:
> Hi,
> > I want to be able to make SA rotate DNS servers. SA even now probes my 
> > DNS for availability every now and then, so it could react to server 
> > failrues, ie change active DNS server. It could even query another 
> > server when the active one timed out while answering a 
> > (single/several) requests. How do I do that?
> 
> The attached patch allows SA (patch built against 3.2.1) do what I have 
> requested for (well, more or less). It makes SA shuffle all available 
> DNS servers every 'dns_test_interval' seconds, effectively spreading the 
> load over all currently available DNS servers when there are many spamd 
> workers. It re-tests all servers (eg. from /etc/resolv.conf) every time.

hi -- could you attach this as a patch to a new bug on our bugzilla?
That will help us track the patch, and hopefully apply it.

--j.