Seeing long delays with emails being delivered

[Alex Neuman]

Sendmail started up, couldn't see the DNS server, decided to forget about it
and resolve some other way - or, after a while, give up on resolving
altogether.

Restart sendmail, sendmail 'sees' DNS server, decides to use it.

How's that for a possibility?

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Jason Williams
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:08 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Seeing long delays with emails being delivered

At 01:03 PM 6/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Use IP addresses instead of dns names on your mail client, or check to see
>if your private bind server is working.


Funky...check this out...ok...taking forever to send messages to the
private server, both name and IP. So this is what I did:

I issued a -HUP command to sendmail on the internal server and that seemed
to fix the problem.

I originally tried to reload BIND using rndc, but that did not fix
it....but when I -HUP sendmail, that made the difference right there....

Interesting...any ideas why that could be?

Thanks for your help Alex.

Jason

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