sending mail from sendmail is very slow!!!!

[raj sourabh]

Well .. that worked!! :)

I removed the entries from host file and put the google DNS IP addresses
/name server entries in resolve.conf

However time of processing has increased from 5 to around 10 seconds on an
average. But that's OK for time being..


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> raj sourabh wrote:
> > I understand the scenario but in my case when the below entries are not
> > put
> > on host file , DNS tries to get to google on  173.194.79.25/26 and
> finally
> > 27. (25/26 are not reachable in my case and system sleeps for sometime
> > until it starts trying for 27). May be its operator network issue!!
> >
> > We have static IP from the operator and DNS IP addesses were provided by
> > them.
> >
> > Still is there any other way we can specify preferred servers for
> sendmail
> > ????
> >
> A quick google to verify yields
> *********
> Google Public DNS IP addresses
>
> The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) are as follows:
>
>     8.8.8.8
>     8.8.4.4
> **********
> at <https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using>
>
> Add those to your /etc/resolv.conf.
>
>      mark
> > Regards,
> > Raj
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >
> >> On 08/01/12 02:52, raj sourabh wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks all for your replies.
> >>>
> >>> The following changes saved lot of time and now mails are processed
> >>> within
> >>> 5 sec :)
> >>>
> >>> I was trying to sendmail to gmail account. here is wat my host file
> >>> looks
> >>> like..
> >>>
> >>> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> >>> # that require network functionality will fail.
> >>> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost TESTSRV
> >>> 192.168.11.50           TESTSRV
> >>> ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> >>> 173.194.79.27 gmail.com
> >>> 173.194.79.27 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
> >>> ~
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's *not* good. You shouldn't have anything that you don't control in
> >> your hosts file. Worst case: put google's nameservers in your
> >> resolv.conf
> >>
> >>         mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you all for your help...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Corey Kovacs<corey.kovacs at gmail.com>
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Raj, can we assume you've monitored /var/log/maillog on the various
> >>>> servers
> >>>> in the chain to see if any helpful messages exist? That's where I'd
> >>>> start
> >>>> see if sendmail has anything specific it is complaining about.
> >>>> On Jul 29, 2012 11:24 AM, "raj sourabh"<rajsourabh1 at gmail.com**>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>  Hi All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am using a sendmail for sending alerts and notification from RHEL
> >>>>>
> >>>> server
> >>>>
> >>>>> 5.5. But the sendmail process is very slow and it takes around 2
> >>>>> minutes
> >>>>>
> >>>> to
> >>>>
> >>>>> complete.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there any way i can make it faster?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks in advace.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Raj
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