From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 19:22:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bastion2.act.csiro.au (bastion2.act.csiro.au [152.83.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1AF37B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 19:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bastion2.act.csiro.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bastion2.act.csiro.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g472Mg527821 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 12:22:42 +1000 (EST) Received: from hermes.la.csiro.au (hermes.la.csiro.au [152.83.12.2]) by bastion2.act.csiro.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g472Me827813; Tue, 7 May 2002 12:22:40 +1000 (EST) Received: by hermes.la.csiro.au with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 12:22:39 +1000 Message-ID: <4ABEF4D887D40745B8D6804C2FFA939F1A75D1@hermes.la.csiro.au> From: Anthony.Wyatt@csiro.au To: shane@ashleyweb.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: incoming connections Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:22:38 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain 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 If you are using sendmail, you can disable lookups the the /etc/sendmail.cf file. I'm not sure what the option is see htpp://www.sendmail.org. The other option is to point your box at a DNS server, and things will be much easier for all involved :-) Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Ashley [mailto:shane@ashleyweb.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2002 9:13 AM > To: Freebsd-Questions > Subject: incoming connections > > > does anyone know how to disable FreeBSD from resolving > incoming ip addresses, or how to lower the time out so that > it will not take a min and a half to give up? simply put I > have a SMTP server on one side of a 3 part hardware firewall > using an internet ip address. then I have the internal > section of the firewall (192.168.0.X) that is connecting to > the SMTP server. the SMTP server is not able to resolve the > addresses into names and is taking 1 1/2 min. to time out. I > have an external dns that the SMTP server can use but I would > rather not make unnecessary generic zone entries into the dns > box. what can I do? > > Shane > shane@ashleyweb.net > > > > 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