its not a DNS issue - its an issue with the way its launched with TCPserver.
Try initializing your smtp/pop services with this:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -l 0 -R
(that's a lowercase L btw)
That should speed things up nicely...
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: slowly problem
it is most certainly a DNS issue.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry BD7NQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:41 PM
Subject: slowly problem
> My mail server always running very fast, but these days
> got a strange situation, the mail system response very slow,
> it seems it have to waitting a long time to start to process
> a connection, but after it check the password, the can transfer
> the mail very fast. The problem is: when the pop3 or smtp client
> program connect to the mail server, the mail server will response
> very slowness, the report message is "have connected...", the hold
> here, client program will report "connect time out" error message,
> then contiue try waitting, about several minutes, the mail server
> start to response, then all the mail in mailbox can be download
> very fast. Also we can when use "telnet <hostip> 25" or
> "telnet <hostip> 110" will get this problem.
>
> My mail server is:
> Solaris 8 for intel, Qmail 1.03 tcpserver and vpopchk.
>
> Any suggestion is welcome, many thanks!
>
> Terry Liang (BD7NQ)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
