From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 03:43:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28852 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:43:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28825 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA09555; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:43:28 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <34EC1AE0.C7811B2A@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:43:28 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Doyle CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Config References: <3.0.5.32.19980219112033.0096e9e0@pop.indigo.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could run Sendmail in 'deferred only' mode (have a look at the manpage for sendmail), this might work... Can you get named to log the DNS names it's looking up - to see whether it's looking up the name of the client connecting to it, or the system the mail is destined for? (named -q / see the named man page). It's been a while since I did Dial-On-Demand stuff - maybe someone else will step in and be more concise? ;-) Kp Michael Doyle wrote: > > Every time one of the users tries to "send" mail using Eudora, (i.e. each > time there's an incomming mail message to sendmail on port 25) the server > dials the ISP, forcing the client to wait. > > This happens even before the server recieves the addess header (i.e. whether > or not the mail message needs to be routed via the ISP to the outside world) > > Any suggestions as to how I could get sendmail to STOP what ever its > doing (perhaps a DNS lookup?) each time it gets an incomming connection? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message