I'm in the same boat. Just found out one of our users can't get to a
site, because the reverse DNS is not working. Funny it works here, at
Microsoft, and other places, but does not work for this one site. Andy,
mail me off list with you OS and Distribution (if any). Maybe we can
figure something out here... <Grin>
Michael
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, andy huhn wrote:
> What is the difference between ident-lookups and DNS? And why would
> either one affect incoming mail? (I have a qmail box that has
> consistently had trouble receiving mail from another mail server, even
> though I am able to receive from most other mail servers without
> problems. Our DNS server has been unresponsive at times, and I'm
> wondering if there may be a relationship).
>
> TIA,
> Andy Huhn
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ruben van der Leij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 4:46 PM
> > To: Qmail mailing list
> > Subject: Re: Slow SMTP
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:51:40PM -0700, Michael Anderson wrote:
> >
> > [mail takes 60 seconds to send]
> >
> > > Thanks Chris. Wonder what's going on with DNS, everything resolves fine
> > > (quick too!), but under qmail, seems like the whole thing takes a nap.
> >
> > In that case the problem *is* ident-lookups. You have an ident-daemon
> > running? It's not shielded by your firewall?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ruben
> >
>
