From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 22 8:20: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.basspro.com (mail.basspro.com [12.14.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C660D37B43E for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:19:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from basspro.com (proxy.bassproonline.com [172.16.254.1]) by mail.basspro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA88415; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:29:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from troyk@basspro.com) Message-ID: <3C766F63.3050502@basspro.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:18:43 -0600 From: Troy Kittrell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mdickerson@officeonweb.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting to sendmail very slow References: <3.0.6.32.20020222085357.01425680@officeonweb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It also might be an issue of ident. Have you installed or tightened firewall rules recently? I believe the line to look for in sendmail.cf is: O Timeout.ident=0s I'll let eveyone else hash out any security implications this may have. mdickerson@officeonweb.net wrote: > Howdy hi, > > Sorry if this is a bit OT (or archived and I couldn't find it). > > I have sendmail 8.9.3 running on 3.5 S. > > Lately (month or so), sending mail via that server is pretty slow (the > initial connection). The problem is that the initial connection takes 7-10 > seconds before connecting (sendmail actually accepting the mail), then > everything hums along fine (once the connection is acknowledged, it zips > along nicely). > > More Details: > -This machine typically has a load of < .10 (single processor) > -top shows it sitting idle mostly > -sendmail.cf is mostly a stock variety (out of the box) > - only additions are procmail, pop before smtp(sourceforge), and rbl(ordb) > -if I telnet to port 25, sockstat on the machine shows the existing > connection as the remote telnet waits the 7-10 seconds (so it appears not > to be a network delay) > -I can ssh just fine with no delay (so it's likely not a DNS issue?) > -traceroutes to the box consistently show less than ~110 ms (it get that > slow when i hit qwest - not to slam them) > -I have flushed the queue and HUP'd it with no change in performance > > > I am cornfused and seek enlightenment. > > I appreciate any suggestions. > > > TIA, > > Mike Dickerson > Officeonweb.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message