Milter-greylist

Brian J. Lewis <brianlewis@...> wrote:

> It did, there is only one libbind.so.4 (actually a symbolic link to 
> libbind.so.4.0.2) in /usr/lib/ and LDD shows that this is where its 
> linked.  libbind.so is also a symbolic link to the same file as well.
> These are from Bind 9.3.2 which is thread safe.
(snip)
>  libbind.so.4 => /usr/lib/libbind.so.4 (0x00d2e000)

Are you sure that one is from BIND9? Please run 
nm /usr/lib/libbind.so.4| grep res_ninit 

> I recompiled without DNSRBL and removed the DNSRBL lines in 
> greylist.conf and the servers have been stable!  In fact I only 
> recompiled on one server, the other 3 servers I just removed the 
> lines from greylist.conf and restarted Milter-Greylist and they are 
> stable as well, so there seems to be a bug in Milter-Greylist when 
> compiled on Fedora Core 5 or 6 with Bind 9.3.x that causes 
> instability under high load (2000-3000 messages rejected per hour)

That smells like thread insafety..

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