From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 18:56: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.focalnetworks.net (alpha.focalnetworks.net [209.135.104.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CDC837B403 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 80193 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Oct 2001 01:57:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 01:57:08 -0000 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:57:08 -0400 (EDT) From: project10 To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Subject: Re: problems with sendmail and LONG delays In-Reply-To: <004601c14ae3$94bbc5d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: <20011001215630.X73124-100000@alpha.focalnetworks.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > I have a 4.3-REL machine with sendmail 8.11.3 that has been acting up over > the past two weeks for no apparent reason. This machine handles mail for > over 60 domains, and we're starting to get complaints from customers. > > What is happening is that MUAs (Outlook, Netscape, Pine) connecting to > sendmail to send mail experience a 10-30 second delay before the message is > sent. I've double- and triple-checked that all DNS related services are > working properly on this box. > > As a test, I tried connecting to port 25 and 587 via localhost and by > external IP from the box itself. In both of these tests, the sendmail > banner comes up immediately. However, connecting from a remote box does > this: > > gabby# telnet mydomain.com 25 > Trying A.B.C.D... > telnet: connect to address A.B.C.D: Network dropped connection on reset > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > gabby# > Have you tried using the -v (verbose) switch on the 'mail' command? > Does any one have any ideas on how to fix this? > > -- > Matt Emmerton > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message