Re: [cobalt-users] Universal CGI-BIN

["William J. Heaton" <wjh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: WIS <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Universal CGI-BIN


>
>
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Fathi Said wrote:
>
> > > Its a strange one.  While other cgi programs run at normal speed
> > formmail.pl
> > > takes a long time to run... I think the problem is with his isp as we
> > can't
> > > seem to get the rest of the world to resolve his ip numbers.  So I
think
> > > sendmail is the cause of the delay.  any thoughts?
> >
> > Not necessarily.
> >
> > I have this happening here on 4 RaQ2s.....
> > Formmail takes about 2 minutes to process a simple request (=send the
email
> > and forward to the thank you page). The strange thing this only happens
on a
> > few RaQs and on those RaQs, it only happens to a few virtual sites. Like
on
> > the same server you have 100 virtual sites, for 50 it processes as it
should
> > very fast, and for the others it takes almost two minutes.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I think this one could be a problem with the ISP. I have noticed
> that if the recipient address has problems (eg non-existant email address
> or a recipient mailserver that is slow to respond) formmail takes a long
> time to process, whereas if the email address is OK it will process
> quickly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger Harrison
>
>