Mailing List Archive: sa-update failing

sa-update failing

Jun 26, 2020, 1:13 AM

Post #1 of 3 (345 views)

Hi everyone,

Our SpamAssassin rules have not gotten any recent updates (looks like
past 2 days). When investigating, sa-update tries to connect to:
2.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org

When doing a DNS lookup on this hostname it appears to be a CNAME which
points to: 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. When doing a lookup for
3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org it doesn't resolve, which I'm leaning
towards being the issue. Please see below lookup results:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
spamassassin.org. 1799 IN SOA ns2.pccc.com.
pmc.spamassassin.apache.org. 2020062505 7200 3600 604800 3600

;; Query time: 265 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 26 10:10:28 SAST 2020
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 131
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Anyone else seeing the same issue?

Thanks!
Stephan

Re: sa-update failing [ In reply to ]

hege at hege

Jun 26, 2020, 2:28 AM

Post #2 of 3 (344 views)

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It queries TXT records

$ dig TXT 2.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org

;; ANSWER SECTION:
2.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org. 3424 IN CNAME 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org.
3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. 79 IN TXT "1879105"

It is normal that updates might be stale for a few days sometimes. Use
"sa-update -D" to debug and post relevant lines if you have an actual
problem.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:13:00AM +0200, Stephan Fourie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Our SpamAssassin rules have not gotten any recent updates (looks like past 2
> days). When investigating, sa-update tries to connect to:
> 2.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org
>
> When doing a DNS lookup on this hostname it appears to be a CNAME which points
> to:? 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. When doing a lookup for
> 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org it doesn't resolve, which I'm leaning towards
> being the issue. Please see below lookup results:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org.??? IN??? A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> spamassassin.org.??? 1799??? IN??? SOA??? ns2.pccc.com.
> pmc.spamassassin.apache.org. 2020062505 7200 3600 604800 3600
>
> ;; Query time: 265 msec
> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 26 10:10:28 SAST 2020
> ;; MSG SIZE? rcvd: 131
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyone else seeing the same issue?
>
> Thanks!
> Stephan

Re: sa-update failing [ In reply to ]

kmcgrail at apache

Jun 26, 2020, 9:31 AM

Post #3 of 3 (342 views)

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Stephan,

The type for the update record is a TXT not an A record, so dig -t txt
3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org.

I'm not sure if an update has failed for the past 2 days though so this
is just a comment on how to check manually.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. 3600 IN TXT     "1879218"

Regards,

KAM

On 6/26/2020 4:13 AM, Stephan Fourie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Our SpamAssassin rules have not gotten any recent updates (looks like
> past 2 days). When investigating, sa-update tries to connect to:
> 2.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org
>
> When doing a DNS lookup on this hostname it appears to be a CNAME
> which points to: 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. When doing a lookup
> for 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org it doesn't resolve, which I'm
> leaning towards being the issue. Please see below lookup results:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org.    IN    A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> spamassassin.org.    1799    IN    SOA    ns2.pccc.com.
> pmc.spamassassin.apache.org. 2020062505 7200 3600 604800 3600
>
> ;; Query time: 265 msec
> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 26 10:10:28 SAST 2020
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 131
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyone else seeing the same issue?
>
> Thanks!
> Stephan

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Kevin A. McGrail
KMcGrail@Apache.org

Member, Apache Software Foundation
Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
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