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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:50:31 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        raymond@acc-uk.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail delay when starting with host
Message-ID:  <19980813125031.E1147@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801bdc612$3f8602a0$be85f0d4@vanilla.acc-uk.com>; from Raymond Hunter on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 05:57:10PM %2B0100
References:  <000801bdc612$3f8602a0$be85f0d4@vanilla.acc-uk.com>

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On Wednesday, 12 August 1998 at 17:57:10 +0100, Raymond Hunter wrote:
> Does anyone have any remedies for a sendmail startup lag?
> The system uses ppp dial-on-demand, and the local network has about 15
> clients. When they send mail to port 25, there is no lag. When a system
> tries to connect to port 25 via. the modem, there is a 30 second lag before
> the system responds.

This smells of DNS.  Do you have it running correctly?

> The FreeBSD box is running FreeBSD 2.2.7 with sendmail 8.8.8. bind is
> running and has entries for all machines on the local network (10.0.0.0/24).
> I tried adding reverse entries for the machine connecting but it didn't
> help.

This sounds funny.  You shouldn't "add entries" for remote systems,
you get that via the root name servers.  Quite possibly that's what
named is trying to do in that time.

Greg
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