Re: sendmail sending slowdown

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Andy Green wrote:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Suddenly (starting yesterday) my mailserver is very slow when I send mail
through it.

I cranked up ettercap on the server to watch what's going on, and it connects
immediately when I send mail, but just sits there for between ten and thirty
seconds before it finally accepts the mail for sending.

On the server, what is in /etc/resolv.conf?  What happens if you ssh
into the server and try to do, eg

dig <sending client ip>@<nameserver ip in server /etc/resolv.conf>

for example

dig 192.168.0.10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and how fast does it come back with a reply?

Are you using a realtime blackhole for lookup?  Maybe that is slow.

-Andy

/etc/nsswitch.conf governs the lookup order. The FC6 config was files then DNS, but I've seen other distros that had DNS prioritized over /etc/hosts.

Two other things come to mind: IPv6. There was a discussion recently how to turn off IPv6 in F7 or maybe something is amiss with an upstream nameserver.

I'm not familiar with ethercap, but is anything else going on network-wise while sendmail is sitting there? There is also a debugging mode for sendmail, plus /var/log/maillog might tell you something.

Bob...

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