At 02:20 PM 12/25/01, Chuck Yerkes wrote: >30 seconds is almost always a wait for a DNS lookup.
I've found that not to be the case. A 30 second delay will ONLY be DNS the first time. The DNS server near (or co-resident) with the server providing caching will cache either the positive or negative result. So, you might see a 30 second delay once, but if you then check your mail a second time and get another 30 second delay, that would point elsewhere. I've found the 30 second delay to be a telltale sign of IDENT processing in XINETD. Indeed, in Xinetd, someone hard-coded 30 seconds as a timeout, and didn't even provide a way to alter that value. Removing USERID logging in your xinetd config will turn this off, give or take bugs in xinetd that seem to turn it back on. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
