From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 20:06:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA07207 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 20:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07202 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 20:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id DAA28234; Fri, 2 May 1997 03:04:44 GMT Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:04:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Nick Esborn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail freezing problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 May 1997, Nick Esborn wrote: > I'm using bind, and it did suddenly start doing this slowdown. One thing > I should probably point out is that it SEEMED to coincide with me manually > deleting a file from /var/spool/mqueue to fix a mail loop, but this may be > coincidental. There are usually two or three files per email, might cause problems if there are mismatches. > What kind of DNS problems should I look for? AFAIK things are working > properly, but it is relatively complex, so there is room for error. If reverse DNS isn't working sendmail stalls trying to resolve your host name(s). Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82