From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 1:58:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris2.netgate.net [204.145.147.155]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E33E3D90 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA46372; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:57:07 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail slow to answer In-Reply-To: <86d7qhr8tj.fsf@hades.hell.gr> 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 1 Feb 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Check if some firewall is silently dropping identd requests to port 113, > as some earlier posting said. This might cause a timeout to the identd > request of the other side, although I'm not sure if it's just 5 sec. Good call. _For my own needs_ identd has become more trouble than it's worth. Too much misconfiguration on the net. :< > Then check if your sendmail has the RBL feature enabled. This contacts > a remote name server, and can cause some delay. Alas, even a caching > named will not solve the problem if you find that this is the cause. > > I found out only recently (before I tried qmail for a while) that when I > disabled RBL and wrote a proper /etc/mail/access map to control relaying > from my dialup connection, my sendmail became a bit faster in it's > responses. Certainly, reducing these checks will reduce the number of lookups that occur before mail is accepted, but if lookups are regularly timing out then something else is wrong and these fixes are little more than duct-tape. No? -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message