I have had to change from reverse lookup to host file entries and back and I
can tell you from today's experiment that a host file lookup on my RH system
is slower then the reverse DNS lookup method. Try a local DNS server, W2K
has a easy one preinstalled with it if you don't like bind.
Good luck!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oden Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Connection difficulties
> onsdagen den 20 juni 2001 01:02 skrev Nick:
> > I've also noticed these sypmtoms with Oversize DNS packets.
> > there is a few patches that address this issue :
> > http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#patches
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Nick
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Thomas Rokamp
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:20 AM
> > Subject: Connection difficulties
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm using Qmail with vpopmail as pop3-server, but most of the time
when
> > clients connect to the server, it takes like forever before they are
> > allowed to check for mail. Both external and internal. Internally I
thought
> > I had solved it, by putting my local hosts into the /etc/hosts file, but
it
> > doesn't seem to work that well. It still takes too long time to connect.
> > Most of the times the connection gets a timeout...
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > (and yes, I think I have been through the faq 3 times... no luck)
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Thomas Rokamp
>
> If you run it under tcpserver you could try to use the -HR switch to
disable
> lookups. I have also noticed that clients behind a firewall sometimes need
> the firewall to reply to auth messages (port 113), the -HR switch should
> disable this behaviour I think.
>
> --
>
> Regards // Oden Eriksson
> Kvikkjokk Networks
>
