OK Thanks That reply was very clear to me! I'll just keep synproxy removed for now, but now I know what to do if I decide to put it back. Chris
Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of April 15, 2008 6:15:54 AM -0500, Chris Bennett is alleged to have > said: > > >> synproxy state was causing problem. >> I changed both to keep state >> and now works fine. >> Why does synproxy state cause mail failures? >> > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > It was causing timeouts. Synproxy works by noting the request for a > connection, doing the connection setup itself, and _then_ replying to the > request. So that initial reply will take a while to get back. > > Basically it slows down initial connection setup slightly, to do what it is > meant to do. Sendmail was noticing this, and not getting a full reply in > the amount of time it was expecting. Either removing the synproxy (like > you've done) or increasing the time before Sendmail times out (I assume it > can do that, it can do everything else...) would solve the problem. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies > > > _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
