Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel C. Fifield" <danf@JADETech.com> Cc: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPopper Timeouts! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615211315.2150O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615104818.12203A-100000@server1.bisnet.net>
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Daniel C. Fifield wrote: > Can you give me anymore information on the DNS lookups, this sounds like > it maybe related to our problem. Are you talking about unknown hostnames? More that your computer can't reach a DNS server. If `host www.uoregon.edu' holds for more than 20 seconds then check your nameserver configuration in /etc/resolv.conf. > If so, can we turn off name resolution in popper so it does not try to > find it. That would be another solution. > Here is a little more information on the problem. It does not appears to > happen all the time, but it seams to happen on only certain emails, even > ones as small as 400k 400k isn't a small email! If 400k emails cause it, then your disk may be slow or overworked. > Unfortunatly, I am a public ISP and a number of my customers are > publishers and marketing firms and they depend on email to send and > receive large graphic files. POP doesn't like large files. You may want to suggest that people needing to swap big files use FTP or web to transfer files. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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