Re: [CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

2014-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/23/2014 11:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: nslookup NAME.DOMAIN.com 127.0.0.1 I appropriately get 10.0.0.187 So far I am stumped on this problem, if any of you have suggestions I would appreciate your help in your DNS server, create a reverse

[CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

2014-03-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
I am using a Centos 6.5 machine as a mail server with sendmail as the MTA. I have a problem with a delay of sendmail presenting its banner so that the process of accepting e-mail can begin. The log files demonstrate as much as a 2 minute delay between the connection and the banner presentation.

Re: [CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

2014-03-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
This is probably being caused by DNS timeout trying to reverse-lookup the connecting IP. Check that your resolver (/etc/resolv.conf) is set correctly and responding to e.g. dig -x [IP-address] queries in a timely manner. If you are using DHCP, note that /etc/resolv.conf may be automatically

Re: [CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

2014-03-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
This is probably being caused by DNS timeout trying to reverse-lookup the connecting IP. Check that your resolver (/etc/resolv.conf) is set correctly and responding to e.g. dig -x [IP-address] queries in a timely manner. If you are using DHCP, note that /etc/resolv.conf may be automatically

Re: [CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

2014-03-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:39:34 -0500 I am using a Centos 6.5 machine as a mail server with sendmail as the MTA. I have a problem with a delay of sendmail presenting its banner so that the process of accepting e-mail can begin. The log files demonstrate as much as a 2 minute delay between the

Re: [CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

2014-03-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/23/2014 11:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: nslookup NAME.DOMAIN.com 127.0.0.1 I appropriately get 10.0.0.187 So far I am stumped on this problem, if any of you have suggestions I would appreciate your help in your DNS server, create a reverse zone for 10.0.0.0/8, like, 10.in-addr.arpa,