[lug] sendmail startup

rm at fabula.de rm at fabula.de
Wed Oct 31 07:57:32 MST 2001


On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:43:02AM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> I have a mail server that starts up rather slowly (on the order of 20-30
> seconds).  Any ideas on why it would take so long?  It is on a high speed
> connection on both ends.
> 
Hmmm, that sounds like it _could_ be a name resolution problem.
You could try to do a packed dump with tcpdump or ethereal and observe
the DNS traffic.
Just a quick guess.

 Ralf Mattes
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