[lug] sendmail startup

[Nate Duehr]

Actually been wondering how to turn this feature off in exim also, if
anyone knows how... doesn't hurt anything, it's just annoying sometimes.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:10:50AM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> I asked before looking.  Maybe this will be of some use to everyone.
> 
> It turns out that sendmail in RH defaults to do ident lookups.  If you are
> hitting a mail server from behind a firewall that just drops the packets,
> you have to wait for it to timeout.  So you can reconfigure your firewall
> to reject identd packets or you can be lazy and put 
> 
> 
> define(`confTO_IDENT', 0s)
> 
> in your sendmail.mc file pass it through m4 and it stops doing ident
> lookups.
> 
> Chagrined at answering his own post,
> 
> Hugh
> 
> "rm at fabula.de"
> > 
> > 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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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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