Re: sending mail from sendmail is very slow!!!!

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raj sourabh wrote:
> Well .. that worked!! :)
>
> I removed the entries from host file and put the google DNS IP addresses
> /name server entries in resolve.conf
>
> However time of processing has increased from 5 to around 10 seconds on an
> average. But that's OK for time being..
>
Sounds to me as though there's something wrong with your regular DNS
servers, or the network to them.

       mark
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> raj sourabh wrote:
>> > I understand the scenario but in my case when the below entries are
>> not
>> > put
>> > on host file , DNS tries to get to google on  173.194.79.25/26 and
>> finally
>> > 27. (25/26 are not reachable in my case and system sleeps for sometime
>> > until it starts trying for 27). May be its operator network issue!!
>> >
>> > We have static IP from the operator and DNS IP addesses were provided
>> by
>> > them.
>> >
>> > Still is there any other way we can specify preferred servers for
>> sendmail
>> > ????
>> >
>> A quick google to verify yields
>> *********
>> Google Public DNS IP addresses
>>
>> The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) are as follows:
>>
>>     8.8.8.8
>>     8.8.4.4
>> **********
>> at <https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using>
>>
>> Add those to your /etc/resolv.conf.
>>
>>      mark
>> > Regards,
>> > Raj
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM, mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 08/01/12 02:52, raj sourabh wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Thanks all for your replies.
>> >>>
>> >>> The following changes saved lot of time and now mails are processed
>> >>> within
>> >>> 5 sec :)
>> >>>
>> >>> I was trying to sendmail to gmail account. here is wat my host file
>> >>> looks
>> >>> like..
>> >>>
>> >>> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>> >>> # that require network functionality will fail.
>> >>> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost TESTSRV
>> >>> 192.168.11.50           TESTSRV
>> >>> ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>> >>> 173.194.79.27 gmail.com
>> >>> 173.194.79.27 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
>> >>> ~
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> That's *not* good. You shouldn't have anything that you don't control
>> in
>> >> your hosts file. Worst case: put google's nameservers in your
>> >> resolv.conf
>> >>
>> >>         mark
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you all for your help...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Corey Kovacs<[email protected]>
>> >>>  wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>  Raj, can we assume you've monitored /var/log/maillog on the various
>> >>>> servers
>> >>>> in the chain to see if any helpful messages exist? That's where I'd
>> >>>> start
>> >>>> see if sendmail has anything specific it is complaining about.
>> >>>> On Jul 29, 2012 11:24 AM, "raj sourabh"<[email protected]**>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  Hi All,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I am using a sendmail for sending alerts and notification from
>> RHEL
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> server
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> 5.5. But the sendmail process is very slow and it takes around 2
>> >>>>> minutes
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> to
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> complete.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Is there any way i can make it faster?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Thanks in advace.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Regards,
>> >>>>> Raj
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