Re: [Exim] Re: RBL Domainsy

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jeffrey Goldberg
CC: Exim
Old-Topics: Re: [Exim] Re: RBL Domains
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: RBL Domainsy
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> I don't know how much control Exim has over timeouts for DNS calls, but if
> it did, it might be reasonable to set RBL lookups with a separate
> (configurable) timeout.


There are some numbers, but it isn't entirely clear what they mean (see
dns_retrans and dns_retry). One could always wrap an alarm() call round
it, I suppose.

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