Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> [mailed and posted]
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mark S. Guz wrote:
>
> > I don't know if anyone else has had this problem but I was woken up this
> > morning by my monitoring service telling me that all 5 of my mail relays
> > had gone down.
>
> > A little investigation led me to see that they were not
> > down but taking a long time to respond. It turns out this is due to a
> > duff server in the rbl domains.
>
> We'll need a little more detail on what is going on with the particular
> RBL servers.
>
i have the following in my config file
rbl_domains = dialups.mail-abuse.org/warn : \
blackholes.mail-abuse.org/warn : \
relays.mail-abuse.org/warn : \
relays.ordb.org/warn : \
or.orbl.org/warn
rbl_log_headers
The offending server, which I deleted and have misplaced its name ;-(
was causing exim to take 30-60 secs to respond to connection attempts,
presumably because it was dead and it had to wait for a tcp timeout
before moving on to the next one.
My beef was that exim did not put out and error message to this effect
and left me guessing .
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> Yikes. I can't quote your message in a response to the list. But I will
> quote this sig on
>
> http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
>
> when I update it next.
**sigh**
If i had a penny for every jumped up self important geek on mission to
show the world how stupid every one else is on the net, I'd be a very
very very rich man.
Kudos to you, you obviously ubercool super geek.
**bigger sigh**
>
> -j
>
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> Jeffrey Goldberg
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