folx, we've got two AIXen (4.2.1) running qmail (1.02, actually, i think, although it might be 1.03) with only the ETRN patch installed to the best of my recollection. it has been working like a charm for years, obviously. recently one of the two boxes started demonstrating a delay of about 28s before qmail-smtp would start up. like this: # date; telnet localhost 25; date Wed Sep 19 09:29:05 MDT 2001 Trying... Connected to loopback. Escape character is '^]'. quit 220 You'll need a book, a bell and a candle to enter here. No UCE. ESMTP 221 You'll need a book, a bell and a candle to enter here. No UCE. Connection closed. Wed Sep 19 09:29:33 MDT 2001 this seems like a DNS problem to me, but i can't find one. the server is puerco.nm.org (mx for nm.net, osogrande.com, osogrande.net, lists.nm.org and a bunch of other stuff, too). qmail-smtp is started out of /etc/rc.tcpip: /usr/local/bin/supervise /var/run/tcpserversmtp /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c50 -u1778 -g212 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd-log 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd & resolv.conf is: nameserver 129.121.254.1 nameserver 129.121.254.2 search nm.org nm.net technet.nm.org technet.nm.net name server is bind on both boxen. the other, correctly functioning box is cochiti.nm.org and it is identically configured (start of qmail-smtp, contents of resolv.conf and os ver, etc.). cochiti.nm.org has no problems or perceptable delay: date; telnet cochiti.nm.org 25; date Wed Sep 19 10:22:58 MDT 2001 Trying... Connected to cochiti.nm.org. Escape character is '^]'. qu220 You'll need a book, a bell and a candle to enter here. No UCE. ESMTP it 221 You'll need a book, a bell and a candle to enter here. No UCE. Connection closed. Wed Sep 19 10:22:58 MDT 2001 qmail-send starts up immediately at command line on both. i'd appreciate any suggestions on further troubleshooting this. todd underwood vice president & chief technology officer oso grande technologies, inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
