Amavis DNS query timeout

[Tom Hendrikx]

On 13-02-17 09:19, Tim Smith wrote:
> On 13 February 2017 at 00:13, Deeztek Support <support at deeztek.com> wrote:
>> Is this inbound email from another domain to your email server? Can you be a
>> bit more specific?
>>
> 
> 
> Yes, so for example on an email received from a @google.com email
> address, I'll see :
> 
> Authentication-Results: my.server.example.com (amavisd-new); dkim=neutral
>     reason="invalid (public key: DNS query timeout for
> 20161025._domainkey.google.com)"
>     header.d=google.com
> 
> 
> In the headers.
> 
> And what I'm saying is that "dig 20161025._domainkey.google.com txt"
> on the same server does not time out.  Hence I've no idea why amavis
> is saying it is ?
> 
> Hope this helps ?
> 

Hi

dns timeouts can be a temporary problem. Do you use a local dns resolver
on the machine running amavisd? What's in resolv.conf? Does the 'DNS
query timeout' error occur in every message that is processed by
amavisd, or only a few?

Kind regards,
	Tom