Hello Chris, On Monday, April 26, 2004 at 3:42:40 PM you wrote (at least in part):
> Now I've got another problem with SMTP. When I try to connect, it takes > FOREVER to send the welcome message. Go ahead and telnet into rhost1.zfx.com > on port 25 and issue a HELO, and you'll see what I mean. Both, connecting and issuing a EHLO (or HELO), is just a matter of seconds from here. > I thought that it could be something with DNS, but everything seems > fine with DNS. The hostname and reverse DNS entries for the box are > in there, and the DNS servers on the server are set correctly so it > should be able to resolve it's self pretty quickly (the DNS server > it uses is on the local box, as is the zone for the domain). Well, it nevertheless could be a DNS related problem. The "self referring" reverse entries are not that much of a matter. What takes time most times this behavior is seen is reverse resolving of connecting client. So what's your 'tcpserver ... qmail-smtpd' invocation line[1]? [1]: ps auxwww |grep '[t]cpserver .*qmail-smtpd' -- Best regards Peter Palmreuther Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
