On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:53:25AM -0400, Bryan White wrote:
> > Well, you can always run more qmail-remotes.
>
> I thought that 250 was the limit. It had something to do with number of
> currentl remotes being passed in an 8 bit value between two programs. Has
> this changed?
There is a very nice patch, written by somebody at SuSE, on www.qmail.org.
It works quite nicely.
[snip]
>
> I just took a snapshot of one of my servers. Of 245 qmail-remotes 160
> ofthem are for yahoo.com.
Yuck.
> Here is what I see as yahoo.com MX records in DNS:
[snip lots of 128.11.[23/68].*]
[snip timeouts]
> This all seems reasonable except the 160 remotes connected to yahoo.com.
Yeah, a little test earlier today showed me that at least one of their
hosts accepted a connection and then dropped it, which means qmail _will_
retry.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
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