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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:35:09 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why does this sendmail connection take so long?
Message-ID:  <3D65833D.3F4D5905@mindspring.com>
References:  <3D64EA4F.13423.6AA8F51E@localhost>

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Dan Langille wrote:
> I'd normally attribute this problem to DNS, but I can't track down
> what DNS problem is occuring.  Note the lag between the first event
> and the next. Any suggestions?

Sendmail attempts to do a "getpeername()" and an identd lookup
of the sending process for logging purposes.  You can turn this
off.  For a persistant connection, the second thing that gets
sent down it avoids this check.

The DNS timeout is by default ~300 seconds, last time I looked.

-- Terry

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