--On Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:22 AM -0700 Jeremy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| It's a good thought, and I've tried that from the | shell. Took a few seconds to figure out that there was | no hostname available for the IP address -- not ten | minutes! So I'm not sure if Sendmail and Cyrus are | calling a separate process that is more persistent in | its attempts to get the hostname, or if they are just | that stubborn on their own (in which case, there must | be a feature to disable this somewhere). | | As a temporary fix, I took the offending IP address | and added it to the /etc/hosts file (performance is | now lightning fast, of course). The more I look at | this, the more it appears that it is a general DNS | problem of some sort.
Also check to see whether you have identd running. A quick google on identd delays produced the following at the top of the results:
<http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/identd/>
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