Date:  Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:33:35 -0800
From:  Jeff Lasman <blists (at mark) nobaloney.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:08319] Re: ORDB is shut down
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <200612220733.35297.blists (at mark) nobaloney.net>
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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 02:57 pm, Arthur Sherman wrote:

> DNS is being turned off today. It would seem that ORDB is in the
> default list for MailScanner to lookup for the Spam List. That is
> bound to cause some timeouts for those that have that feature
> enabled.

By default DNS timeout is 2 seconds. So leaving ORDB in your blocklist 
setup will cost you 2 seconds per email.  That may or may not be a 
problem; more so if you use it for blocking rather than in 
SpamAssassin.

Jeff
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