On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:30, Thomas Bitschnau wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 21:56, Dave Pawson wrote: > > older processor, I'm getting similar (long) times. > > Any info on 'DNS-Tests' please? > > I think it's this: > > "This works by analysing message text and HTML for URLs, extracting the > domain names from those, querying their NS records in DNS, resolving the > hostnames used therein, and querying various DNS blocklists for those IP > addresses. This is quite effective." > > And "querying various DNS blocklists" costs a lot of time, i think. > Without it for me the spam-detection rate is slightly worse, but my > client sometimes got stuck, because they took to long. Now I have 3 > spam-messages, out of 250 a day, coming through, which I can sort out by > hand. Ok, I took a closer look and the information provided by me, was not correct. There is a difference between DNS and DNS::NBL. We are talking about DNS-lookups, I described DNS::NBL-lookups. DNS-lookups uses DNS-banlists, which are checked with every tested mail and this takes some time. I think this is, what takes so long on some systems. PS: I hope this is it now! :-) Greetings, -- Thomas B. ICQ UIN#: 28869987 I finally went to the eye doctor. I got contacts. I only need them to read, so I got flip-ups. -- Steven Wright
