At 04:46 PM 10/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:37:07AM -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
> > minute on qmail-pop3d. Also, when I try to telnet to the mail server from
> > another machine
> > on my lan which is allowed to do so, I notice a delay as well in getting
> > the ESMTP greet message.
>
>Perhaps there is a problem looking up the reverse DNS entry for your own
>mail server. Can your mail server resolver a PTR for the interface
>address that tcpserver is listening on?
The only type of DNS i'm running on the mail server (and other two linux
boxen) is a
caching DNS, but I must admit I am very weak in DNS (it's so blasted
confusing) :-(,
could you help me out here?
>(The -l option to tcpserver can stop it doing this, but determining to
>root cause of the problem is likely to be more useful)
Hmmm, I will look at the -l option, but you are correct, fixing the root
cause is the
proper step to do (if you fix it right the first time, saves headaches later).
-Bill
