Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Mark S. Guz wrote:
>
> > Given that exim becomes unusable when it can't reach one of the servers
> > in its rbl domain list
> > I do think that a failure message would help diagnose problems quickly.
>
> Please give more detail of what you mean by "unusable". What the code is
> supposed to do if it can't reach an RBL server is simply to ignore the
> setting, and proceed as if it coulnd't find the host in the RBL. It
> shouldn't cease working.
well, for me. it took 30+ seconds to clear the dead server.
For instance, if I telneted to port 25 on the afflicted server it took
30+ seconds to give me the usual prompt.
This tranlated into timeouts for all of our users and a build up of half
open connections on our server.
took out the dead server and boom, back to normal.
>
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