OT sendmail delay
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 12:48:01 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 03:13, Bryan Hepworth wrote:
> I know this is off-topic seeing as how it's about sendmail but I was
> hoping someone could help out.
>
> I have a machine with two ethernet cards in - previously these sat on
> two different networks to take email from inside and deliver it to the
> smarthost externally. Now that the network has been changed to 192.168
> arrangement we don't need both ethernet connections, but I have noticed
> a distinct delay on the other ethernet card to get a connection,
> sometimes over a minute. Other services work just fine on it and are
> instantaneous as is sendmail on the internal ethernet card. Could anyone
> point me in the right direction as to what to look for.
Sendmail does a lot of DNS lookups, even when handing to a
smarthost. Perhaps you have 2 servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf
and only one of them works.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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