[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail slow to respond

[Neil Aggarwal]

Jay:

I tried changing my name servers to the ones at my ISP:

search homexcorp.com
nameserver 206.123.64.245
nameserver 206.123.69.4

And it still does not help.

Thanks,
	Neil

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Jay Urish
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:50 PM
> To: brad angelcyk; NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail slow to respond
> 
> 
> 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
> >>
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> >>Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (214)986-3533, 
> www.JAMMConsulting.com
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