Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: real sloooww local mail with internet link down
Message-ID: <3798@phri.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 21:23:51 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	Whenever our link to the outside world goes down, local mail gets
real slow (like messages spending over 30 minutes to an hour in the
sendmail queue).  We're running sendmail 5.59 with the IDA enhancements and
bind 4.8.  I suspect that what is happening is that our named is trying to
contact some outside named to resolve an address and timing out, but I
don't see why it should do that on local addresses.  Apparantly, whatever
it is, it's not critical because eventually the mail does get delivered.

	Can somebody give me some hints as to what might be happening and
how to prevent it?
-- 
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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