From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 9 5:39:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-38.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ADB37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f79CcaZ31254; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:38:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:38:35 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: Fabrizio Ravazzini Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP very very slow! Message-ID: <20010809083835.C30948@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>; from freefabri@yahoo.it on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:06:15PM +0200 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park 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 On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:06:15PM +0200, Fabrizio Ravazzini thus sprach: > I tried to telnet on the port 25 of the FreeBSD box > but the daemon hanged me there for several minutes and > then answered and all worked ok. > This also for the pop3, when I try to poll the FreeBSD > machine I have to wait several minutes to get an > answer, but after that all works well. Slow ftp/telnet/xxx seems to be one of the most frequently asked questions on any Unix related group I've seen and it all boils down to three letters DNS. The far side agents try to authenticate the name by looking up from the IP they get. If there is no reverse mapping - it can take well over a minute to search all their namesevers for a possible match - then it will 1) let you login or 2) reject you completely - and a great many sites will reject you if you can be authenticated. You can control the DNS for your machines. Make sure everthing is correct AND that whereever you get service from is properly reversing your names. If not change providers - like I had to. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message