when i used sendmail i used to have a problem of the sort. every so often
the hash db wouldn't create. i'd have to remove the previous one, then
create. I used to make my maps like this with a shell script and it
worked fine:
rm /etc/junk.db
makemap hash /etc/junk.db < /etc/junk
-Cygnus
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Gary Schrock wrote:
> At 09:16 AM 8/24/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > >POP befor SMTP works just fine, then all of a sudden, for no apparent
> > > > >reason, it stops denying relaying for everyone. It almost seems as
> > if the
> > > > >makemap hash table gets "corrupted" somehow. For example, the "makemap
> > > > >hash popper" command stops working, it just hangs. Rebooting the server
> > > > >fixes it.
>
> Hmm, in a way that's similar but different from the problem I run into
> myself, but it might be rooted in the same background. Is your server by
> any chance also running a dns server? I've noticed with my setup that
> sometimes what will happen is that the dns server will do a refresh on a
> list it holds, and during that time period seems to be unavailable for
> requests, and what ends up happening is that the database for accepting
> relaying ends up at a 0 length until it fixes itself. I've noticed this
> particularly during times when an upstream connection is bad, and my
> incoming sendmail connections are taking a very long time to finish. I'm
> not sure whether the problem is either a) sendmail not letting the database
> be repopulated when it's receiving a connection or b) the database just not
> populating properly when the dns server is having trouble for whatever
> reason. But for me, what ends up happening is that *all* relaying gets
> rejected. Typically it doesn't clean itself up until after the net
> connection clears up.
>
> This situation, while fairly rare for my setup, has led me to start
> considering something like smtp auth instead of pop before SMTP.
>
>
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