Author: Marten Lehmann Date: CC: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] dnslists - how to set timeouts
Hello,
> But there is already a very reasonable default that does just what you asked for.
after which seconds does exim timeout DNS calls?
> Entries such as those below may not show for many days, then run for an hour in
> a burst of *many*, other days one to four only for the entire day, etc.
>
> 2006-10-21 13:19:32 DNS list lookup defer (probably timeout) for
> 113.249.106.85.dnsbl.njabl.org: assumed not in list
Well, I haven't seen any of them in my logs, but I'm still pretty sure
that these dns calls are the reason for the client timeouts. I think
that the smtp-client timeouts just occur before the exim timeout, so if
the connection is closed before exim would have detected the timeout
they don't actually appear and get logged.
