At 05:32 PM Thursday 8/19/99, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
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>On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Sam wrote:
> > Mark writes:
> > > When connecting to my pop server, it takes between 20-30 seconds to
> > > connect. After connecting, everything is fast. I have tested my client
> > > with pop servers on other machines and I don't experience this delay
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> > > it is a server problem).
> > Either you have forward/reverse DNS problem, or you're hitting the max
> > number of connections set by tcpserver.
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>My qmail smtp does this.... I believe the list list blamed it on tcpd
>doing some sort of reverse/ident check. I don't have tcpd on my pop,
>though, so I'm not sure what the problem might be with your setup.
So how is qmail-pop3d invoked?
Note that tcpserver has the -R option to turn off ident checking. By default
it is on!
Mark.