Milter-greylist

I run a dedicated server using rbldnsd, rsync'd databases, dnscache, 
all it does is DNS for the mailscanners!  Its wicked fast and creates 
no delays.  Restarting Milter-Greylist fixes the issue for a period 
of time.  Thanks for you comments!

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, AIDA Shinra <shinra@...> 
wrote:
>
> At Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:50:49 +0200,
> manu@... wrote:
> > 
> > Brian J. Lewis <brianlewis@...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe this is a clue?  Check this out, these are weird errors, 
its 
> > > greylisting but its also erroring same time.  I can email you a 
GZIP 
> > > of the log that has all this weird stuff in it if it will 
help.  
> > > Maybe a corrupt greylist.db? Or just too large? (21 megs)
> > 
> > The "timeout before data read" simply means the milter stopped
> > responding, probably because it crashed.
> > 
> > There are two usual suspects
> > 1) DNS query with a thread-unsafe resolver (if you use DNSRBL or 
SPF)
> > 2) system limit (ulimit) exhausted.
> 
> I frequently see temporary "timeout before data read" simply because
> of high latency in lookuping SPF on my lesser traffic server. 
Brian's
> server can possibly be consuming a long time due to latency in
> lookuping DNSRBLs rather than deadlocking at somewhere.
>