From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 14: 2:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glow.radioactivedata.org (glow.radioactivedata.org [199.232.41.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C438937B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 66828 invoked by uid 7770); 5 Mar 2002 21:54:59 -0000 Received: from localhost.radioactivedata.org (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.radioactivedata.org with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 21:54:59 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:54:59 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Bertsch X-X-Sender: To: Richard Wenninger Cc: Subject: Re: Sendmail delay In-Reply-To: <20020305222444.4B94B14A18@mail.westmoormfg.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If it is a reverse lookup failure, I believe that adding the appropriate IPs to the firewall's /etc/hosts should do the trick for you. -Mike On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Richard Wenninger wrote: > When I send mail from a client behind my natd firewall, specifying the natd > firewall running sendmail as the smtp server, it takes > 1 minute to send a 1 > line email. > > I'm assuming this is happening because it's trying to do a reverse DNS > lookup, and not finding anything. > > The mail sends successfully, it just takes entirely too long. > > There will be 30 users using this facility, so I must streamline it. > > Can someone tell me how to fix this? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message