[Spambayes] DNS error: "nothing to lookup"

[David Abrahams]

on Sat Jun 20 2009, skip-AT-pobox.com wrote:

>     Dave> I'm seeing this error during my spambayes training runs:
>
>     Dave> {'domain': 'boost-consulting.com', 'protocol': 'udp', 'server':
> ['209.216.206.167'], 'rd': 1, 'opcode': 0, 'timeout': 10, 'timing': 1, 'qtype': 'A',
> port': 53}
>     Dave>   Error, fixme nothing to lookup
>     Dave>   Question was 
>     Dave>   Original question was 
>     Dave>   Type was A
>
> That error message is coming from the pydns package.  

Yes, I know.  But what does it mean?  It looks like we're asking it to
lookup the empty string.  We shouldn't be doing that, should we?

> I think the best we can do is recognize the error and avoid the print.

Seems to me that it must indicate either a bug in spambayes or
corruption of my database, unless I'm missing something (entirely
possible).

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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