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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Daniel Quinlan <qu...@pathname.com> on 2004/02/01 00:23:46 UTC

Re: RBL timeouts

Bill Wraith <bw...@nji.com> writes:

> For some reason, I am now getting messages in the log (w/debugging enabled)
> as follows:
> 
> Jan 31 16:38:24 bwnjlin1 spamd[1333]: debug: RBL: success for 0 of 17 
> queries
> Jan 31 16:38:24 bwnjlin1 spamd[1333]: debug: RBL: timeout for 
> sorbs,sorbs-notfirsthop after 15 seconds
> Jan 31 16:38:24 bwnjlin1 spamd[1333]: debug: RBL: timeout for 
> njabl-notfirsthop,njabl after 15 seconds
> Jan 31 16:38:24 bwnjlin1 spamd[1333]: debug: RBL: timeout for opm after 
> 15 seconds
> 
> ...etc for remaining RBL checks...
> 
> Sometimes it is 0 of 9 queries, and sometimes 0 of 17 queries.

That typically indicates 1 query is for the domain, 8 are for IP
addresses in the header.  9 means one received header, 17 means two
received headers.

Why 0?  Probably means your network connection is not working, DNS is
not working, or something like that.
 
Daniel

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Daniel Quinlan                     anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux, and
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