sending mail from sendmail is very slow!!!!

[raj sourabh]

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
????

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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