Re: mail problem continued

Allen K. Smith (lazlor@stardust.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 09:56:02 -0700


Are all these hosts in your DNS tables and do DNS lookups (forward and
inverse) return information quickly and correctly for these hosts? If not,
it could be DNS lookups (most likely inverse lookups) slowing things down.

At 08:31 AM 5/29/98 -0400, RHS Linux User wrote:
>Well, about that mail problem I was having.. I've found out that the
>problem is not with sendmail or pop3d but that local network traffic has
>slowed down to a crawl. When I try to telnet to the server, it takes
>about 5 minutes for it to connect.
>
>I've got the server setup as eth0 being 192.168.0.254 and eth1 being
>207.41.56.5. It seems that whenever I try to talk to the server from
>anywhere on 192.168.0.*, it slows to a crawl. But I can talk from
>192.168.0.* to the outside(ipfwadm) just fine.. no slow down, and I can
>talk from the outside to the server just fine.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
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