On Tuesday 06 June 2006 00:21, Don Russell wrote:
> listserv.traffic@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
[snip]
> I'm using the "out of the box" named config files, I only added
> authoritative stuff for 10.in-addr.arpa so sendmail and other services
> that like to do reverse lookups would work better. (My LAN is in the
> 10/8 address space behind a NAT router)
>
> Without that, sendmail has a long delay before replying to a client
> connection.
Try this in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc:
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')
As root, type
# make -C /etc/mail
Restart sendmail.
Now sendmail won't try to look up the address(es) of your machine in
the in-addr.arpa domain.
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Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579
