Dan Langille wrote: > On 28 Aug 2002 at 16:43, Terry Lambert wrote: > > echo 'hi there' | mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ? > > After issuing the above command, there is a 75s delay (see below for > delay location). All subsequent lines appear without delay. At the > end of this message, I've issued the commands by hand. No delays > occur. > > [dan@xeon:~] $ echo 'hi there' | mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to localhost.example.org. via > relay... > > <insert 75s delay here>
This is either ident or the reverse DNS. Since the delay is ~75s, and that's on the order of 3 tries of 25s each, I would say it was a resolver issue, not an ident issue. Most likely, it's the reverse lookup of the 127.0.0.1. You need to make your local DNS server claim authority for the 127.in-addr.arpa. domain, and put the reverse mapping for the name "localhost" in there. The most common cause of a problem like this for a net connected system is a firewall that blocks DNS UDP packets; otherwise, it would just find that same value in the global DNS. I have patches for Sendmail 8.9.3 that fix this sort of thing up (I didn't want to bring up the link in a dial-on-demand device when processing local email), for all the good that will do you, since it's an ancient version tese days. ;^). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
