Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-27 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi all, Once upon a time Ingo Hohmann spoketh thus: Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... (smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) If I do a ping smrgol I get an instant answer, but if I telnet

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-20 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... I'd put even money on this being a reverse DNS problem. You see, exim and telnetd will both use tcpwrappers to do

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-20 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Mark, Simon, and all, seems I still have to master the art of giving all needed information in my questions ... The most silly thing in all this is: it's happening locally, all that has to be done is, look into the local hosts file, find the ip of the local host, and connect. thanks for all

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-20 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Simon, Once upon a time Simon Law spoketh thus: On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... I'd put even money on this being a reverse DNS problem. You

Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... (smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) If I do a ping smrgol I get an instant answer, but if I telnet smrgol it takes about 30s until I'm connected. On the other hand

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
Just a random idea: could an outgoing connection (e.g. to a DNS server) being stalled because the server is doing an ident lookup, and the incoming packets to port 113 are being silently dropped? -- Mark

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Mark, don't know ... how can I find out? thank you, Ingo Once upon a time Mark Carroll spoketh thus: Just a random idea: could an outgoing connection (e.g. to a DNS server) being stalled because the server is doing an ident lookup, and the incoming packets to port 113 are being

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Carroll
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: don't know ... how can I find out? Is it even possible given your network setup? -- Mark