From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:15:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00563 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00521 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02688; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Daniel C. Fifield" cc: Dean Hollister , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPopper Timeouts! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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