Ok, I made all the changes to the resolv.conf and hosts files. Now when I run the sendmail -bt -d0.13 command it doesn't give any errors about not being qualified, so that's good! But, I'm still having the same problem with sendmail responding slowly. :(
I did a bunch of nslookups and so far it all looks good, the server is set to resolve with itself through bind which had no problem with every valid name I could throw at it. You still think it's a name resolution problem? ------------------------------ >no upgrades or anything ? Yep, I'm the only one that administers this server with root access and besides adding users and forwarding one port now and then I haven't touched it. We did switch to a new ISP about a month ago, so the DNS and IP address was updated to reflect this, but everything worked great for 2 weeks after the changes. That's like the only change. This is a non profit organization so they have little money to fix things, and most of my time here is volunteer based for them, but I like to do it because I get to learn all about Linux in the process. ----------------------------- So, is there any other cool commands I could try to diagnose this thing, or a even a good documentation on troubleshooting. I have looked all over the net for troubleshooting docs, along with this 800 page Sendmail manual I have and no one seems to offer much help in that area. Otherwize, I could try to upgrade Sendmail to the newest version, maybe that would fix it. Cheers -Dave -----Original Message----- From: Richard A Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:16 PM To: Dave Scott Cc: Debian User Subject: RE: Everything about Sendmail is Slow On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Dave Scott wrote: > Richard, thanks for the help :) no problem, we'll get this squared away quickly... > As far as the "sendmail -bt -d0.13" command. It comes up with a error > half way though that says: "WARNING: local host name (localhost) is not > qualified; fix $j in config file This isn't good, and is likely 99% of your problem > ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)" Normal, don't worry about that > ------------------- > The hosts file reads > > 127.0.0.1 localhost rapids > mail.server.ip.address rapids.mydomain.org rapids I'd remove the 'rapids' from the 127.0.0.1 line... > --------------- > The resolv.conf reads > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > search rapids.mydomain.org > nameserver 207.69.188.185 > nameserver 207.69.188.187 That should say search mydomain.com ! Otherwise, it tries to qualify every host with 'rapids.mydomain.com' > ----------- > The hostname file reads > Rapids no problem here > Now, this all seems weird because this mail server was functioning > totally fine up to a week ago and no one was in there doing anything. no upgrades or anything ? > Any command you give to the sendmail system takes about 1 minute to > minute and half to respond, not just the mailq command, the sendmail -bt > command also takes time, basically if you try to talk to sendmail about > anything there is a delay, even if the mailq is totally empty there is > still a delay, is this normal, because it always responed quickly before > this happened. > -------------- > Do you think that message about localhost not being qualified is the > culprit? Most definetly... the first thing sendmail does is a gethostbyname call, and it does this for pretty much every invocation... -- Rick Nelson Turn right here. No! NO! The OTHER right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
