[Mimedefang] Network effects (was Re: ERR Filter timed out)

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Brian Landers wrote:

> Another option is to run a local caching DNS server on your mail server
> itself, and set /etc/resolv.conf to use 127.0.0.1 as primary nameserver.

This is a good idea, but I'm not sure how much it will help RBL lookups.
If your mail server is contacted by lots of different machines, I'm
not sure what the cache hit rate will be.  Still, anything is better than
nothing.

--
David.