Author: John W Baxter Date: To: Exim Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: RBL Domainsy
At 15:54 +0100 7/19/2001, Philip Hazel wrote: >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.
>
I have a hunch that this is headed toward a significant platform-dependency
jungle.
