Hostname Lookup Delay and Timeout

[Doug Koobs]

> I have a client who is connecting to IMAP and/or POP
> services and is waiting 10-15 minutes to successfully
> check his mail. I think it may have something to do
> with the fact that his ISP is not providing him with a
> hostname, and for some reason IMAP (or my FreeBSD box
> in general?) is attempting to lookup his hostname. 

Yup, sounds like a DNS problem to me, especially the sendmail problem. Try
adding an entry in /etc/hosts for the hostname, if there is not one there.

Doug




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