[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail slow to respond

[Jay Urish]

I'm telln ya'
Its gotta be DNS.
Neil,

Take the first host in resolv.conf and do a nslookup <host IP>

That will fire up nslookup and tell it to look at that IP for name 
resolution. 10bux sez it just times out.


brad angelcyk wrote:
> How long does it take to restart the sendmail process?  I had this
> same problem, and just restarting the process would take a good
> minute.  Fixing DNS/hosts got it working like it should, though.
> 
> 
> On 5/12/05, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hello:
>>
>>This is strange.  Today, two different clients called me telling me
>>that they are unable to send email from Outlook.  They keep getting
>>a message that their connection timed out when connecting to the SMTP
>>server.
>>
>>I am at one of these clients' sites and when I do:
>>  telnet 192.168.1.1 25
>>it takes about 30 seconds to give me a response from sendmail.
>>
>>I eventually get back:
>>  220 www.homexcorp.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Thu, 12 May 2005
>>11:55:22 -0500
>>which looks like, but it takes a long time to get it.
>>
>>I believe this is the source of the problem -- Outlook gives up when
>>waiting for sendmail to respond.
>>
>>Any ideas what could be happening?
>>
>>I find it strange that two separate people called me with the exact
>>same symptoms on the same morning.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>  Neil
>>
>>--
>>Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (214)986-3533, www.JAMMConsulting.com
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