Re: [cobalt-users] slow email

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

: "Brian Watters" <brwatters@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote

> I have had the very same thing .. on and off through out the day I have
> times where the mail will POP very very slowly and even say the server is
> not available .. however its there via the www .. sending can take a long
> time as well on and off .. Hope someone has an idea .. I have over 250
megs
> on a RaQ3i with less than 20 sites doing nothing ..
>
Check your ptr records in your DNS.
sendmail attempts to do a reverse lookup, and more than once,
the timeouts are quite long.
Can you do an nslookup on the IP address or the domain name?
Some curse nslookup for doing a reverse on each lookup
but it tells you if your reverse is working, fails if not.
Try also from outside, I use http://www.his.com/cgi-bin/nslookup
enter your IP and hit "return"
Gerald