[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow connection to pop3

[Victor Brilon]

Yes you do. BIND supports dynamic updates via DHCP. Read the manpage for 
much more detail as it's reasonably complex enough that a single 
paragraph of email won't do it justice.

Victor

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> 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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