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From: hedrick@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Another aspect of SMTP timeouts
Message-ID: <8703010118.AA05357@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 20:18:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 28 20:18:48 1987
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Sorry, but your diagnosis is quite correct.  We modified sendmail a
year or so ago to map nicknames into primary host names.  We found
that suddenly connections were timing out.  Turns out the code to
process headers was invoked after the connection was opened.  My
sensibilities were badly offended, but I found I could make things
work by moving our host table to a dbm format.  This speeded things up
enough that the other end wouldn't time out.  Now that we have moved
to the domain system, it is quite possible that the problem has
returned.