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[Bug 5632] New: remove completewhois DNSBL lookup
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
Summary: remove completewhois DNSBL lookup
Product: Spamassassin
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P5
Component: Rules
AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
ReportedBy: jm@jmason.org
(in a thread about DNS timeouts and long scan times)
Mark Martinec writes:
> On Sunday August 26 2007 22:05:58 Jeff Chan wrote:
> > FWIW completewhois.com and it's host network elan.net appears to be
> > unreachable. completewhois has the HIB blacklist, and probably others.
>
> Right, all queries to combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com
> are still timing out, which, depending on rbl_timeout setting,
> can have a significant impact on the average elapsed time of
> a scan. Most of the Saturday it was worse still, likely some
> other RBL server being down too.
If completewhois is still down, and has been having trouble since
people started making comments about it on the users list, we
should probably remove it. It's only catching 0.3482% of spams,
with a FP rate of 0.0590%:
STATISTICS-set3.txt: 0.244 0.3482 0.0590 0.855 0.57 0.40
RCVD_IN_WHOIS_INVALID
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-08-27 04:56 -------
Created an attachment (id=4110)
--> (http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/attachment.cgi?id=4110&action=view)
fix
here's the patch that removes them...
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[Bug 5632] [review] remove completewhois DNSBL lookup
Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From spamassassin@dostech.ca 2007-09-20 14:41 -------
Not yet. I was planning on cutting an update tonight. I'll add this to it.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-08-27 04:51 -------
oops. there are other lists I missed. here's their freqs:
rules/STATISTICS-set3.txt: 0.000 0.0007 0.0000 1.000 0.51 0.00
RCVD_IN_WHOIS_BOGONS
rules/STATISTICS-set3.txt: 0.000 0.0000 0.0000 0.500 0.51 1.00
RCVD_IN_WHOIS_HIJACKED
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-08-27 04:50 -------
btw even their website seems down:
http://www.completewhois.com/rbl_lookup.htm
I think they're history.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From mkettler_sa@verizon.net 2007-09-20 16:01 -------
+1 completewhois is still being a problem
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-09-21 00:59 -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> Oh yeah, I'm in no rush for a 3.2.4 release for this either. Heck, we took a
> month to make another release to fix the bug that prevented most people from
> installing SA via CPAN.
er, I don't think that was something to emulate :(
good point about rules being CTR, and that this can be sorted in an update.
forgot about that.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From felicity@apache.org 2007-09-20 14:38 -------
Have we released an update removing these rules? I don't think it's critical to
get a release out to remove the rules from the distro.
I'm +1 on the patch btw.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From schulz@adi.com 2007-08-30 12:42 -------
The web site is now sort of back up. It responds with the following message:
Site is temporarily offline while server is rebuilt expect to be back around
September 1st, 2007
But given the hit rate, you might want to remove it anyway.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From odi@odi.ch 2007-09-24 01:36 -------
Their website and blackist is gone. No idea why. But all lookups return a domain
parking IP. This is still minor P5!?!
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
------- Additional Comments From spamassassin@dostech.ca 2007-09-20 20:24 -------
Oh yeah, I'm in no rush for a 3.2.4 release for this either. Heck, we took a
month to make another release to fix the bug that prevented most people from
installing SA via CPAN. In comparison, I don't think this is too big a deal.
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------- Additional Comments From schulz@adi.com 2007-09-07 08:30 -------
The web site is back up. I don't know if the rules would work as I still
have them patched out.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5632
jm@jmason.org changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |FIXED
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-09-24 07:44 -------
(In reply to comment #16)
> next step: the update needs to be built on the zone, I haven't done that yet.
now done, using the command in
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualRuleUpdates .
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------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-09-20 14:27 -------
IMO we should get this applied RSN, and release a 3.2.4 without those rules.
Right now there appears to be a major slowdown in 3.2's scan speed due to this
issue.
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Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
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jm@jmason.org changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary|remove completewhois DNSBL |[review] remove
|lookup |completewhois DNSBL lookup
Status Whiteboard| |needs 2 votes for 3.2
Target Milestone|Undefined |3.2.4
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-09-13 06:54 -------
nobody seems to be objecting to their removal, so let's do that for 3.2.4.
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------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-09-24 02:23 -------
'This is still minor P5!?!'
don't pay any attention to that, we don't use it.
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jm@jmason.org changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status Whiteboard|go |update needs to be published
------- Additional Comments From jm@jmason.org 2007-09-24 05:33 -------
oops. this patch ommitted URIBL_COMPLETEWHOIS, so I removed that too...
applied to b3_2_0:
: jm 64...; svn commit -m "bug 5632: remove all completewhois.com DNSBL lookups,
site seems to have disappeared without warning"
Sending rules/20_dnsbl_tests.cf
Sending rules/50_scores.cf
Sending rules/active.list
Transmitting file data ...
Committed revision 578785.
applied to 3.2.x updates:
: jm 67...; svn commit -m "bug 5632: remove all completewhois.com DNSBL lookups,
site seems to have disappeared without warning"
Sending 50_scores.cf
Sending 72_active.cf
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 578788.
trunk:
: jm 73...; svn commit -m "bug 5632: remove all completewhois.com DNSBL lookups,
site seems to have disappeared without warning" rules
Sending rules/50_scores.cf
Sending rules/active.list
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 578789.
they all lint ok.
next step: the update needs to be built on the zone, I haven't done that yet.
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spamassassin@dostech.ca changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status Whiteboard|needs 2 votes for 3.2 |go
------- Additional Comments From spamassassin@dostech.ca 2007-09-20 20:13 -------
+1 also on the patch. BTW... didn't we change rules/ to CTR?
Applied to the 3.1 and 3.2 update branch copy of the rules in r577966 and
r577965 and included in 3.1 and 3.2 updates 577968 and 577969.
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