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Re: persistent spfd connection failures

2004-04-19 20:33:08
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:31:23PM -0500, wayne wrote:
| In <408431EA(_dot_)6040806(_at_)eshu(_dot_)net> Joe Christy 
<joe(_at_)eshu(_dot_)net> writes:
| 
| >                                          I'm currently using
| > Mail::SPF::Query-1.996's spfd [snip]
| 
| I did some checking into this.
| 
| For some reason, the Perl DNS functions take around 30 seconds to
| return a SERVFAIL/TRY_AGAIN DNS error.  Libspf-alt takes 10 seconds,
| while libspf takes 20 seconds.  No, I can't account for the different
| times, nor can I account for why my system only takes 30 seconds with
| perl where yours takes 80 seconds.
| 

i believe Net::DNS has configurable timeouts so we can actually set a
timeout value at some point and make this problem go away for you ...  i
have added it to my todo list for 1.997.



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