summary : sendmail freeze

From: Mirat Satoglu (mirat@bornova.ege.edu.tr)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 03:52:46 CST


This is a very late summary , i am sorry for this. But I just realized
what caused my problem.

Thanx to James Ford, Roger B.A. Klorese , Sugan Moodley, Chris Marble,
Serhat Ebil and Michael Miller.

Except Sugan, they all pointed to dns and reverse dns issues. Sugan
advised to change the line Timout.ident=30s to 3s in cf file.

Unfortunately it was not my problem. With my own 8.9.3/8.9.3 sendmail ,
everything was working fine but i was continuously having messages like
this :
Alias0 : missing map file /etc/mail/aliases.db ...
And archives advices to makemap alias file to stop messages. I did it, the
messages ended , but sendmail froze at the same time. The solution was
going back to original solaris binaries and cf files until compiling them
once again. Here is my original question.

Mirat Satoglu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem about Berkeley Sendmail 8.9.3. I configured
> 8.9.3/8.9.3 and it was working perfect, but now although 3 of the servers
> work perfect the other 3 do not work, in fact they also work but they are
> so slow. They are all identical, the only difference is, the last 3
> servers have more user accounts apr, 3 times of others. When i telnet to
> port 25, i receive these messages :
> Working sendmail ex;
> /usr/users/mirat>tn y 25
> >Trying xxx...
> >Connected to y.ege.edu.tr.
> >Escape character is '^]'.
> >220 y.ege.edu.tr ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Tue, 4 Jan 2000
> >12:06:32 +0200 (EET)
>
> Not properly working sendmail;
> >/usr/users/mirat>tn z 25
> >Trying xxx...
> >Connected to z.ege.edu.tr.
> >Escape character is '^]'.
>
> But unfortunately i cant receive the following line before 3-4 minutes...
> >220 z.ege.edu.tr ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; bla bla ...
>
> I couldnt find any docs about it neither at sun.com nor at sendmail.org
> Just the question below from FAQ.
> Q5.1.3 -- Why does version 8 sendmail (< 8.7.5) sometimes hang under
> Solaris 2.5?
> And i dont think it is related? Any ideas ? Thx for your help..
> By the way, happy new year to all.
>
> Mehmet Mirat Satoglu



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