[100541] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Slow Sendmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Sat Nov 21 18:09:44 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:11:08 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: Brian Dragoo <BDragoo@thomasaquinas.edu>
cc: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <01bb01be1590$26d32bc0$88ebefd1@bdragoo.thomasaquinas.edu>
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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Brian Dragoo wrote:
>Sending mail (using Pine 4.04 on RH 5.1) to other users on the same machine
>is lightning fast.
>
>Sending mail to other users on the internet sits and thinks for about 15
>seconds after hitting C-x (to send).
>
>Can anyone think of a reason for the discrepancy in mail sending times?
>
sounds like a nameserver timeout. do you have dial-up/dial-down scripts?
you might look to alter your /etc/resolv.conf depending on whether you're
online or not.
if you're on-line all the time, try finding a faster primary nameserver,
or install a caching nameserver locally....
-dave
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