Re: [cobalt-users] can someone tell me why I made this move???

[Dennis <dkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Debbie-

When you have mail forms that take 2-4 minutes to load most of the time it is
because your DNS is not setup properly with reverse entries on each IP. If they
are not setup the server will try to resolve to an IP and will eventually time
out after trying numerous times (2-4 minutes). Try adding 1 reverse entry per
IP to any domain that is assigned to that IP and see if it speeds things up.
Right now I can't remember what log file to check as the timeouts are logged in
one of them, but if I remeber I will let you know.

    -Dennis

Debbie Doerrlamm wrote:

> I'm really getting disgusted now.. I thought I made this because it was
> going to make my life easier not having to deal with shared machines.. that
> the sites would work a little faster (maybe -wasn't promised that - I would
> think it would be a given that 30 domains on a Cobalt VS 1000 on a shared
> UNIX......)
>
> RaQ3i has 27 domains, one parked
> IP#1 is my domain and a parked.. both work properly, site and mail
> IP#4 is a holding area for domains not ready to make live yet
>
> IP#1 is also dns1.mydomain
>
> IP#2 is dns2.mydomain
>
> IP#3 is the shared name-based
> There are at this moment 16 domains on that IP. All are now propagated
> I tested the emails and forms this eve on all but 2 (nothing really there
> to test)
>
> The catchall patch and OS2 have been applied to my machine. One thing the
> catchall patch is supposed to do is make a blind alias for every user even
> if you do not physically assign one. But if it did that.. it must have done
> this someplace other than in the virtusertable as I know at least 2 users
> who have no aliases and are not listed in the virtusertable.
>
> Since I am the designer in all but one case I have a user name and admin
> privileges in all domains. That user's mail is fwd'd to me either using
> FORWARD in the GUI or a .forward file in the users root. These are the
> addresses I used to test with
> In all cases (domains) except for one, all users are ignored if the
> catchall is in place.
> I tried taking the catchall out and putting it back in in the first 2 or 3,
> no change.. but after that I sent one mail with it in.. not received,
> removed the catchall sent again and it was received.
>
> I have looked and looked and do not see any differences in the one that
> worked with the catchall and the 13 others that did not work.
> I even tried sending mail to the catchall working domain to an unknown user
> and it was received by the user set to catchall.
>
> One of these domains now shows no users in the GUI <AGAIN>
>
> While testing the fill in forms.. all these domains are simple ones.. some
> have no forms.. others have one or 2 basic contact fill in forms.. nothing
> overly complicated here.. from the time you click submit to the time the
> next page comes up is ions.. I mean like 2-4 minutes..
> while the script is crawling along.. top shows:
>  12:50am  up 2 days,  1:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
> 39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.1% user,  1.3% system,  0.0% nice, 98.4% idle
>
> The message boards and scripts at mydomain are crawling now also.. My site
> has been live for just over a week.. when I was testing before I was live
> and before I made these 16 sites live.. click boom.. done.. now creep crawl
> wait oh gee maybe I'll click again.. This is making a HUGE mess of my
> message boards..
>
> I guess I have to call Cobalt again on Monday... <sigh>
>
> One more Q here..
>
> In Control Panel>Services>DNS>Parameters
> last night I clicked on the modify : Start of Authority (SOA) Configuration
> for the domain, the top line there..
>
> everyone says something different..
>   Primary Name Server (NS) Host Name    admin.mydomain.com
>  or
>   Primary Name Server (NS) Host Name    www.mydomain.com
>
>   Secondary Name Server (NS) Host Name (optional)      [blank]
>
> I have dn1.mydomain.com pointed at xxx.xxx.xx.202
> and dns2.mydomain.com at xxx.xxx.xx.203
>
> I suppose I need to change these?? <G> the machine name is actually now
> www.mydomain.com
>
> thats enough.. I'm going to bed..
>
> Regards,
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