Yes you could do that unless your parnoid about things.. Just make sure you
tell your NAT/Firewall which IP to allow inbound outbound connections on
port 53 to. In that case it would be that machine. The whole slowdown in my
case was a stupid mistake of not mapping port 53 in the first place but even
after mapping the port I found much more performance when I added the DNS
server into the loop. Might be a old computer but it don't need to be
powerfull to do it's job .. Just needs memmory which it has 128megs which
was tough to find in the old 32pin memmory (shesh - don't even ask)
BTW, this is for my office pop3/imap4 services not my outgoing mail
services. My outgoing mail servers have 3 deddicated DNS servers which are
housed on newer 650mhzPIII's with lotsa memmory and yes still using bind
(yeah, yeah I know djbdns)
--JT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Yardley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?
Well if the problem is name resolutions, why not just install bind on the
machine itself (in a caching-only configuration)? Then make it listen only
on 127.0.0.1 and make this the primary resolver for the machine.
w
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:32:53AM -0700, James Stevens wrote:
> I had a similar problem however my resolve to it was to take an *OLD* 286
I
> had laying around install a fairly bare installation of Linux on it and
> installed the DNS service. Then I put that online behind my firewall and
> added it's IP for port 53 to my NAT/Firewall and assigned it as the
primary
> DNS server for my qmail machine. That resolved everything... However I
don't
> know how many of ya out there have old 286 machines just laying around but
> you can use any machine you want you can even install bind on the qmail
> machine itself the only reason I didn't was I did not want the load of the
> DNS service on that machine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --JT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Balatero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Chin Fang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:08 AM
> Subject: RE: Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?
>
>
> Its quite slow with my Netgear RT314 router as well.
>
> -- David Balatero
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chin Fang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?
>
>
> I recently have a user reported me the following:
>
> I recently installed a Netgear RP114 Router, to provide multiple
computers
> access to the internet via a single cable modem from ATT. Since then,
my
> Eudora email program encounters some sort of 30 second delay when
> attempting to retrieve email from any of my awit.com accounts. The
> "status" display of the process shows "Logging into POP server" for
> upwards
> of 30 seconds, before continuing. Once it actually starts downloading
> email, it proceeds as quickly as it always has.
>
> None of the other five email POPs I deal with have this problem. Do you
> know of anything that I can try to improve this performance?
>
> I first asked him where these five POP boxes are hosted, and then I
telneted
> to port 110 of these five places, and got the following info:
>
> popd.accesscom.com QPOP (version 2.3)
> pop.vitac.com DPOP Version 2.4a
> venus.he.net QPOP (version 3.1.2)
> holzheimers.com POP3 holzheimers.com v4.47 server
> cihost.com POP3 localhost v4.47 server
>
> I then asked him to use telnet to port 110 to our POP server, and he
> still got the delay. So, I am quite sure it's most likely caused by
> the Netgear RP114, although I don't see any reason why this is so.
>
> The following is from the init script of our POP server. The -R is
> used to turn off identd, a typical cause of delay. But he got the
> delay with the Eudora client and with the command line telnet client
> regardless.
>
> tcpserver \
> -v -R -x $RULESDIR/pop3.cdb \
> 0 pop3 qmail-popup $HOSTNAME \
> $checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 \
> | $setuidgid qmaill $tai64n 2>&1 \
> | $setuidgid qmaill $tai64nlocal \
> | $setuidgid qmaill $multilog s${LOGSIZE} n${LOGNUM} \
> /var/log/pop3d &
>
> I am quite puzzled at this moment. We don't have a Netgear RP114 router
> handy, so I wonder whether anyone has experienced this and has insight
> into why this symptom is there. Any hints/tips are appreciated.
>
> We use qmail 1.03.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chin Fang
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
