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Add resolver processes to allow better performance on busy machines
author carl
date Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:35:50 -0800
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1 $Id$
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3 4.0 2005-01-03
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4 Initialize the thread mutex objects early, before they are needed
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5 by possible calls to my_syslog.
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7 Fork off a separate resolver listener process, so we can do multiple
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8 dns operations in parallel. For each simultaneous inbound email,
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9 we have a separate sendmail process, a milter thread, and a dns
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10 resolver process.
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12 3.7 2004-10-28
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13 Added an 'ignore' command to the conf file, used to ignore some
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14 hosts that might end up on the SBL and otherwise trip the content
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15 scanning filter. In particular, many recent Microsoft Word
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16 documents contain the string www.5iantlavalamp.com which is
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17 associated with their smart tags stuff. That is currently hosted at
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18 216.168.224.70, which is shared with a site that ended up on the
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19 SBL.
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21 3.6 2004-09-08
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22 Contributions from Dan Harkless <software@harkless.org>
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23 Better documentation for disabling the content filtering.
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24 Don't bother looking at the body text if we are not doing
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25 content filtering.
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27 3.5 2004-07-17
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28 Extend the error message for content filtering when the NS record
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29 points to an ip address on the SBL. Include the original host name
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30 that referenced that NS name.
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33 3.4 2004-07-15
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34 Tokens with two consecutive periods cannot be ip addresses or host
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35 names.
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37 Updated dnsbl.spec file for building rpms from John Gunkel.
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40 3.3 2004-07-09
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41 Drop root priviledges properly, including the group id.
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44 3.2 2004-07-09
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46 Contributions from John Gunkel <jgunkel@palliser.ca>:
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47 Add .spec file for building rpms, contributed by John Gunkel
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49 Changes to file layout to conform to RedHat/LSB standards.
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51 Add some html (actually xml) tags used by Apple mac print
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52 subsystem that were tripping the html tag detector.
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54 Help with changes required to allow dnsbl to drop root
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55 priviledges. Move the socket to /var/run/dnsbl/dnsbl.sock
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57 Change parser to handle &#xnnn; obfuscated urls with charaters
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58 specified in hex.
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60 Make bad_html tags more sensitive to binary tags, to reduce false
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61 positives in .zip or .tar.gz file attachments.
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63 Add sendmail queueid to the dnsbl syslog messages.
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65 Fix one place where host names were not forced to lower case.
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66 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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68 Remove duplicate dns queries within the same smtp transaction from
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69 the body content filtering. This helps if the mail server does not
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70 have a nearby caching dns server.
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72 Add host_soft_limit config keyword. Use only one of host_limit or
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73 host_soft_limit, since the last one wins. The host_limit is a hard
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74 upper limit on the number of host names in a message. The
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75 host_soft_limit allows unlimited host names, but only checks a
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76 random sample of them against the dnsbl.
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78 The main thread has dropped root priviledges, but other threads
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79 are still running as root. This needs to be fixed.