Re: Skip net checks if local tests score is high enough?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Malte S. Stretz writes:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 10:03 CET Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> > "Malte S. Stretz" <ms...@gmx.net> writes:
> > > Well, all I can say is that I have a sucky upstream DNS-server and with
> > > 2.6x a check often took 30-60 seconds. Without Razor and stuff.
> >
> > This is most likely due to the MX test.
> >
> > > But this was hopefully improved with the new timout code.
> >
> > The timeout code is basically unchanged since 2.60.  I think your
> > problem is something else.  15 seconds is the longest possible timeout
> > for DNSBL rules and is very unlikely due to the scaling timeout code
> > (see the rbl_timeout documentation in Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf).
> 
> Wasn't the scaling timeout introduced for 3.x?
> 
> Anyway, since I upgraded to 3.x I haven't seen any checks taking that long 
> anymore, so whatever it was, I take it as fixed :)

there were bugs in Dns.pm, where some rules like NO_DNS_FOR_FROM did
a DNS lookup without any timeout :(  fixed in 3.0.0.

- --j.
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