Rules on the webpage

[Rick Macdougall <ri...@nougen.com>]

Hi,

Are the rules on the webpage going to be updated ?

I had a weird problem on one of my 20 or so servers where the scanning 
time was 4.x seconds vs 0.8 seconds on most others.

Turns out it was the completewhois.com dns lookups failing with 
input/output errors, timeouts, etc but a search on the tests page didn't 
show any whois tests (I finally tracked them down with a spamassassin -D 
and a grep through the /usr/local/share/spamassassin rules),

Any reason that the completewhois.com dns tests are enabled by default 
if the lookup almost never works ?  (All my servers show timeouts and 
input/output errors).

Regards,

Rick

Re: Rules on the webpage

[Rick Macdougall <ri...@nougen.com>]

Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 08:34 PM 9/26/2005, Rick Macdougall wrote:
>
>> Turns out it was the completewhois.com dns lookups failing with 
>> input/output errors, timeouts, etc but a search on the tests page 
>> didn't show any whois tests (I finally tracked them down with a 
>> spamassassin -D and a grep through the /usr/local/share/spamassassin 
>> rules),
>>
>> Any reason that the completewhois.com dns tests are enabled by 
>> default if the lookup almost never works ?  (All my servers show 
>> timeouts and input/output errors).
>
>
> Really? looks to me like it works, but some of their servers are down.
>
> From www.dnsstuff.com I tested it:
>
> Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com 
> A record at m.root-servers.net [202.12.27.33]: Got referral to 
> J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [took 182 ms]
> Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com 
> A record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to 
> dns3.elan.net. [took 198 ms]
> Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com 
> A record at dns3.elan.net. [64.68.0.1]: Timed out.  Trying again.
> Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com 
> A record at dns1.completewhois.com. [216.151.192.222]: Reports that no 
> A records exist. [took 129 ms]
>
> Looks to work, although the one server didn't answer, the next one did.
>
Interesting, on all of my servers I see Input/Output errors.  Maybe 
related to dnscache rather than using bind ?  I'll run some internal 
tests and see.

Rick

Re: Rules on the webpage

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 08:34 PM 9/26/2005, Rick Macdougall wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Are the rules on the webpage going to be updated ?

Eventualy, yes.. However, I'd never suggest relying on the "tests" page on 
the SA website to mean anything. Sometimes it gets updated before a new 
release, sometimes after.


>I had a weird problem on one of my 20 or so servers where the scanning 
>time was 4.x seconds vs 0.8 seconds on most others.
>
>Turns out it was the completewhois.com dns lookups failing with 
>input/output errors, timeouts, etc but a search on the tests page didn't 
>show any whois tests (I finally tracked them down with a spamassassin -D 
>and a grep through the /usr/local/share/spamassassin rules),
>
>Any reason that the completewhois.com dns tests are enabled by default if 
>the lookup almost never works ?  (All my servers show timeouts and 
>input/output errors).

Really? looks to me like it works, but some of their servers are down.

 From www.dnsstuff.com I tested it:

Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com A 
record at m.root-servers.net [202.12.27.33]: Got referral to 
J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [took 182 ms]
Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com A 
record at J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.48.79.30]: Got referral to 
dns3.elan.net. [took 198 ms]
Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com A 
record at dns3.elan.net. [64.68.0.1]: Timed out.  Trying again.
Searching for 94.141.39.208.combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com A 
record at dns1.completewhois.com. [216.151.192.222]: Reports that no A 
records exist. [took 129 ms]

Looks to work, although the one server didn't answer, the next one did.