Re: All RCVD_IN_VALIDITY rules being applied to every email.

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>On 18 Nov 2024, Bill Cole spake thusly:
>> If you forward DNS queries instead of running your own *fully
>> recursive* DNS resolver locally, you *look* like you are part of a
>> high-volume leech. This almost certainly does not mean you should run
>> dnsmasq locally, it means you need a REAL resolver. Unbound does a
>> good job without the rococo config options of BIND. Many people also
>> like the resolver half of the PowerDNS suite.

On 18.11.24 18:18, Nix wrote:
>I'm running BIND (actually, two BINDs, one authoritative one, one
>recursive resolver). Sorry, I've been doing that for so long I forgot
>any alternative was possible! :)

Are you sure your provider does not intercept DNS queries?

>> The point of the big ugly error message is to have a big ugly error
>> message. MOST people who report problems with SA accuracy here have
>> misconfigured their resolvers, apparently because they don't trust
>> documentation or don't read it.
>
>Not me! This is something else. Maybe lkml is just too high volume...
>God knows it's too high volume to actually *read* (I'm grabbing it for
>grepping purposes and I really don't mind if SA doesn't RBL-scan mails
>directed there -- it's all my other mail I want RBL-scanning.)

looking at it RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL prodces 10s score, so little caching 
possible.


>Yes, pretty much every non-paying customer is blocked...

>On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 05:21:12PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>>From https://knowledge.validity.com/s/articles/Accessing-Validity-reputation-data-through-DNS :
>
>>  Starting March 1, 2024, Validity will allow up to 10,000 requests to anonymous users over a 30-day period.

On 19.11.24 04:46, Matija Nalis wrote:
>10k requests per 30-day period is about 333 queries/day. Or less than 14 queries per hour.
>Not very much at all (and certainly at least order of magnitude less than your stated traffic).
>No amount of local DNS caching is going to fix limits *that low*.

yeah, this looks like blocking every non-paying user.


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