On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 03:13, Bryan Hepworth wrote: > I know this is off-topic seeing as how it's about sendmail but I was > hoping someone could help out. > > I have a machine with two ethernet cards in - previously these sat on > two different networks to take email from inside and deliver it to the > smarthost externally. Now that the network has been changed to 192.168 > arrangement we don't need both ethernet connections, but I have noticed > a distinct delay on the other ethernet card to get a connection, > sometimes over a minute. Other services work just fine on it and are > instantaneous as is sendmail on the internal ethernet card. Could anyone > point me in the right direction as to what to look for. Sendmail does a lot of DNS lookups, even when handing to a smarthost. Perhaps you have 2 servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf and only one of them works. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx