> Well, you can always run more qmail-remotes.
I thought that 250 was the limit. It had something to do with number of
currentl remotes being passed in an 8 bit value between two programs. Has
this changed?
> But I'm curious why yahoo is consuming qmail-remotes. If connections
> to yahoo.com are timing out, the tcpto mechanism should keep
> qmail-remote from trying to connect. (See "man qmail-tcpto".) But if
> connections are succeeding, the messages should either be delivered or
> deferred. Either way, I don't see why large numbers of qmail-remotes
> would be trying to send to yahoo.com for extended periods.
I just took a snapshot of one of my servers. Of 245 qmail-remotes 160
ofthem are for yahoo.com.
Here is what I see as yahoo.com MX records in DNS:
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.214
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.231
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.157
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.208
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.247
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.87
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.246
mx1.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.216
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.144
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.226
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.215
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.224
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.198
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.96
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.68.224
mx2.mail.yahoo.com internet address = 128.11.23.231
NS3.EUROPE.yahoo.com internet address = 194.237.108.51
NS1.yahoo.com internet address = 204.71.200.33
NS2.DCA.yahoo.com internet address = 209.143.200.34
NS5.DCX.yahoo.com internet address = 216.32.74.10
running 'qmail-tcpto | grep 128.11' produces:
128.11.22.89 timed out 946 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.68.225 timed out 425 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.96 timed out 35 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.213 timed out 335 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.22.90 timed out 1066 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.68.216 timed out 0 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.214 timed out 2 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.229 timed out 395 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.209 timed out 326 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.247 timed out 0 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.231 timed out 17 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.87 timed out 9 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.224 timed out 22 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.224 timed out 78 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.246 timed out 1118 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.23.198 timed out 20 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.144 timed out 41 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.157 timed out 16 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
This all seems reasonable except the 160 remotes connected to yahoo.com.
