[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Neil Aggarwal]

Paul:

I am going to have multiple internal machines, so I am using dhcp
to assign addresses on 192.168.1.x to the windows machines.  
Since the address is dynamic, I dont have a way to add and entry 
to the hosts file.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
	Neil.

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Neil Aggarwal
JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Paul Ingendorf
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 4:05 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3
> 
> 
> Definitely the thing to try would be to just add a line in your 
> /etc/hosts file for the windows machine trying to connect to the 
> pop3 server.  If this makes the reply almost instant then you 
> have found your culprit and you may want to think about setting 
> up a dns server on the mail server that will answer authoritative 
> for the reverse dns mapping for your internal ip range.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Neil Aggarwal
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 12:17 PM
> To: NTLUG
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3
> 
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I just set up a Linux box Running RedHat 7.3 to act as a mail server.
> When I try to download my email from Outlook on my Windows box,
> it take a long time to connect and start downloading my email.
> Everything works, but it just sits for a while first.
> 
> Reading some articles on the web, I think it is a timeout of
> either reverse DNS or identd, since the machine I am checking
> from uses an internal IP address that wont resolve for
> reverse dns and it is a windows box that does not run identd.
> 
> I tried following some instructions I found that told me to edit
> the /etc/xinetd.conf file and /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 files to remove
> items from the log_on_success lines, but that did not
> help.
> 
> I check my firewall, it is not a problem since I tried diabling 
> it as well.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Neil.
> 
> --
> Neil Aggarwal
> JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
> Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
> 
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