Your also might want to look into installing dnscache
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dnscache-1.00.tar.gz and have a local caching only
server running on the qmail machine.
Sean Truman
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Qmail List (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: trouble
> > Everythings fine but the smtp server takes a long time
> > to initialize..like when I telnet to port 25 on my
> > localhost...the 220 host.domain.com ESMTP appears but
> > after a long time.
> >
> > Has anybody experienced such a problem and was able to
> > solve this...
>
> Your tcpserver invocation is probably trying to get IDENT info,
> which is the default. This times out after 26 seconds or so. Put '-R'
into
> your tcpserver command line and the lag goes away, or open up port 113 on
> the firewall to allow IDENT traffic to freely flow.
>
> >From http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html:
>
> -r: (Default.) Attempt to obtain $TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.
> -R: Do not attempt to obtain $TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host. To avoid
> loops, you must use this option for servers on TCP ports 53 and 113.
>
> --
> gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
