On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Paul Brown wrote:
> > If you are considering SPAM etc, reverse lookups are very useful.
> >
> > > Could someone tell me why it takes a while to connect, and also how to fix
> > > this. It is a little annoying to wait several seconds to send a mail just
> > > a few bytes big.
are you sure this isn't identd (tcp port 113) processing?
> > Why ?
> >
>
> the question is essentially.. is a reverse lookup making the connection to
> the mail server take a few seconds, or something else. Also, is there any
> way to speed this up?
if it's DNS, make the mail machine be a caching resolver.
Paul
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