dns question

[Garry T. Williams]

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 00:21, Don Russell wrote:
> listserv.traffic at sloop.net 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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