From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 18:48:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C487C37BBF3 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:47:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g262l7Z82927; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:47:07 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:47:07 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Richard Wenninger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail delay Message-ID: <20020306154707.A82889@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020305222444.4B94B14A18@mail.westmoormfg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020305222444.4B94B14A18@mail.westmoormfg.com>; from richardw@pslim.com on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0600, Richard Wenninger wrote: > When I send mail from a client behind my natd firewall, specifying the natd > firewall running sendmail as the smtp server, it takes > 1 minute to send a 1 > line email. > > I'm assuming this is happening because it's trying to do a reverse DNS > lookup, and not finding anything. > > The mail sends successfully, it just takes entirely too long. > > There will be 30 users using this facility, so I must streamline it. > > Can someone tell me how to fix this? Install an internal DNS with the reverse-ptrs. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesus saves. Allah forgives. Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message