[rbldnsd] Possible Small Bug

[Jon Lewis]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jeff Chan wrote:

> On Friday, January 28, 2005, 7:40:02 AM, David Hart wrote:
> > BTW, we added a virtual domain that had been terribly abused. Yesterday
> > rbldnsd rejected close to 3,000 spams without breaking a sweat - never
> > even showing up in "top."
>
> FWIW 3000 is nothing.  I don't know what the practical limits for
> rbldnsd are, but I suspect they are 3 or 4 orders of magnitude
> greater, depending on the particular boxen.

It's hard to make any load comparisons based on "blocked 3000 spams/day"
since you don't know how many queries rbldnsd handled with negative
answers.

But...I'm seeing PII/PIII Celeron 400-500mhz systems handling >1300qps and
rbldnsd keeps on trucking.

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