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RBL on Windows
Is it true that RBL is flakey on Windows and sometimes hangs.

I want to enable it, but if it's going to hang, I don't think it will be a good idea.

Mark

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RE: RBL on Windows [ In reply to ]
> Is it true that RBL is flakey on Windows and sometimes hangs.
>
> I want to enable it, but if it's going to hang, I don't think
> it will be a good idea.

I'm running SA 2.63 with ActivePerl 5.8.2 on Windows 2000 with the
current Net::DNS installed. I haven't seen any issues with RBL lookups
hanging in this setup or my previous 260 with ActivePerl 5.6.x and
Net-DNS-12.

I do note that I've set RES_NAMESERVERS in my system environment
variables.

Bret
RE: RBL on Windows [ In reply to ]
Thanks, that's good to know. Is it hard to get it work with ActivePerl 5.8.2. I know that there are issues with the makefile, but I think I saw something posted somewhere on how to get it to work. I have it set up with 5.6.1 know and Net-DNS-12. Do you sugguest I update to 5.8.2.

Thanks,
Mark


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RE: RBL on Windows [ In reply to ]
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> Thanks, that's good to know. Is it hard to get it work with
> ActivePerl 5.8.2. I know that there are issues with the
> makefile, but I think I saw something posted somewhere on how
> to get it to work. I have it set up with 5.6.1 know and
> Net-DNS-12. Do you sugguest I update to 5.8.2.

I honestly don't think there's any reason to update to perl 5.8.2. I
updated to test multithreading on Windows. There are apparently still
multithreading issues in some of the modules as evidenced by errors like
these:

Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at
C:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket.pm line 46. Attempt to free unreferenced scalar:
SV 0x280bac00 at C:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket.pm line 46. Attempt to free
unreferenced scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at C:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket.pm line 46.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at
C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Parser.pm line 35. Attempt to free unreferenced
scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Parser.pm line 65.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at
C:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket.pm line 46. Attempt to free unreferenced scalar:
SV 0x280bac00 at C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Parser.pm line 35. Attempt to
free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x280bac00 at
C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Parser.pm line 65.

Plus, running just 2 processes, my CPU usage went through the roof and
e-mail pretty much came to a standstill.

That said, I don't think Net-DNS-12 is still required. I believe that
the current Net::DNS works fine as long as you set RES_NAMESERVERS or
have Win32::Registry installed.

Bret