[mailed and posted]
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> > [...] 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.
That's what I was afraid of.
My concern is a bit more abstract. I simply don't like the idea of a
failure of one RBL DNS server seriously disrupting the performance of
a large number of mailhubs.
But I'm not sure whether this is worth using alarm() that way.
-j
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