More on last subject

[Kelly Hamlin]

Would installing named on the machine and pointing its dns to itself help
any ya think?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Hamlin" <fizz at BOMB.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: More on last subject


> definatly see an improvement...
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> now. what if anything can i do to help dns speed...
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:38 AM
> Subject: Re: More on last subject
>
>
> > At 20:14 16/04/2002, you wrote:
> > >drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 16 14:02 g3GI4SC01027/
> > >-rw-------    1 root     root          886 Apr 16 13:56
> g3GI4SC01027.header
> > >drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 16 14:02 g3GI4TC01029/
> > >-rw-------    1 root     root          594 Apr 16 13:56
> g3GI4TC01029.header
> > >drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Apr 16 14:02 g3GI4UC01031/
> > >-rw-------    1 root     root          831 Apr 16 13:56
> g3GI4UC01031.header
> > >
> > >notice how they are 7 minutes apart?
> > >any clues would be great :)
> >
> > I would suspect that your DNS lookups are running slowly. Try switching
> off
> > the spam detection altogether and see if that cures the problem. If it
> > does, then it's definitely a DNS speed problem.
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >
>