From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 20:21:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00333 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00324 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:21:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA00733; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:50:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA01611; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:50:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980813125031.E1147@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:50:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: raymond@acc-uk.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail delay when starting with host References: <000801bdc612$3f8602a0$be85f0d4@vanilla.acc-uk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000801bdc612$3f8602a0$be85f0d4@vanilla.acc-uk.com>; from Raymond Hunter on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 05:57:10PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message