I dunno if anyone saw this message, but I was asking if adding -t5 to
my tcpserver line would speed up access to users sending get/send
requests through Outlook Express clients (I know, wintendo)
>
>At 03:02 PM 6/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running qmail with tcpserver, and want to know if there is
>>>any way to make qmail respond faster to smtp/pop3d requests other than
>>>going through a DNS lookup...
>>
>>Huh? How would going through a DNS lookup speed this up?
>>
>>Disabling identd lookups, using the "-R" flag to tcpserver might
>>help. Or possibly just shortening the timeout via "-t".
>>
>
>Well, here is my qmail startup script for smtp and pop3...
>
>Stuff above deleted to save space...
>
>case "$1" in
> start)
> echo -n "Starting: "
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &
> echo -n "qmail "
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u7791 -g2108 0 smtp \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null &
> echo -n "smtp "
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -H -R -b30 -c10 0 pop3 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup odie.donbest.com \
> /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
> echo "pop3d"
>
>stuff below deleted to save space...
>
>Now, I do have the -R flag going to tcpserver (as shown above), will
>adding -t5 (for a max 5 seconds) help, or are they mutually exclusive?
>
>>
>>If your DNS is slow, you'll see delays all over the place, and, yes,
>>running your own caching nameserver will help.
>
>I bought a copy of the ORA DNS/Bind book 3rd edition, which I am
>going over now...<slow reading..heh>...
>
>-Bill
