On 21-Dec-98 21:10:29, David Ressman wrote something about "slightly off topic (inetd and qmail)". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus: > This isn't so much of a problem as an oddity. I'm wondering if any of > you have seen this before. Qmail is installed and is working perfectly, > but whenever I try to make an outgoing smtp connection to someplace that > does an ident lookup, the connection will pause for 7-15 seconds and then > does the ident lookup. I know that's not very clear, so I've included > some tcpdump output: [cut] Smells like DNS problems (and indeed neither myhost nor remotehost resolve from here). Regards, /������������������������������T�����������������������������������������\ | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Registered Phase5 developer | WWW: http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948374/ | | A4000, 775 kkeys/s (RC5-64) | "ThrustMe" on XPilot and EFnet IRC | | Machine-independent: Does not run on any existing machine. |
