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Pyzor usage by University?

[Vincent F. <vb...@uc...>]

Hi,

New to using Pyzor here.  We have it running in test on one of
our mail routers, and wanted to know if the list had any guidance
before we put it into production on all of them.


I looked back through the list archive and the recent thread I found
with this sort of question seemed to think it was OK to use public.
But it didn't mention volumes, and we can be higher volume maybe
6 million on a few days.  Most days are 2-4 million.   We would PREFER
to mirror it locally for speed and reliability if possible.  Can we rsync
to mirror the data?

We are currently just doing check per the example given.
Any other things we should be doing?

Thanks!

Re: Pyzor usage by University?

[Dreas v. D. <dr...@sp...>]

Hi,

On 01/14/2013 11:11 PM, Vincent Fox wrote:
> I looked back through the list archive and the recent thread I found
> with this sort of question seemed to think it was OK to use public.
> But it didn't mention volumes, and we can be higher volume maybe
> 6 million on a few days.  Most days are 2-4 million.
It should be fine to simply query the public pyzor server.

> We would PREFER
> to mirror it locally for speed and reliability if possible.  Can we rsync
> to mirror the data?
This is currently not possible unfortunately.

Greets,

Dreas

Re: Pyzor usage by University?

[Benny P. <me...@ju...>]

Vincent Fox skrev den 14-01-2013 22:11:

> New to using Pyzor here.  We have it running in test on one of
> our mail routers, and wanted to know if the list had any guidance
> before we put it into production on all of them.

+1

> I looked back through the list archive and the recent thread I found
> with this sort of question seemed to think it was OK to use public.

okay, see comment below

> But it didn't mention volumes, and we can be higher volume maybe
> 6 million on a few days.  Most days are 2-4 million.

so local dns server and maybe local pyzord is ready ?

or is it just pyzor (CLIENT) testing ?

> We would PREFER to mirror it locally for speed and reliability if 
> possible.

one could rewrite the pyzor CLIENT to update local pyzord on all remote 
servers that exists in servers list, but this step was never commited :(

> Can we rsync to mirror the data?

nope its dns based with udp, but if you handle so many msgs, why not 
get a pyzord setup from local users to report to ?

> We are currently just doing check per the example given.

means only pyzor CLIENT ?

> Any other things we should be doing?

dont know yet :=)

Re: Pyzor usage by University?

[Vincent F. <vb...@uc...>]

On 01/22/2013 09:16 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote:
>
> We are currently just doing check per the example given.
> means only pyzor CLIENT ?
>
>
Yes.

We have a range of other measure in place.

We run DCC here, we get feeds through Rhyolite.
We also run various blacklists, and we host local
copies of that data on servers running rbldnsd.

So we have some experience and infrastructure
that could be leveraged, but as yet I know fairly
little about running Pyzor other than we are now
running it in client mode on our mail routers.

I would think a local-only pyzord would be inferior
to using data that is shared from other sites, who might
see a given spam before we do.  But I suppose it's no
different than running Bayes which we do local-only.

Any thoughts about best direction are welcome.