[ale] Sendmail latency

[FishR at bellsouth.net (Ryan Fish)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at yahoo.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Sendmail latency


> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:11 -0500, Ryan Fish wrote:
> > - All boxes have some combination of the following in /etc/resolv.conf.
All
> > of them contain the first three and at least one of the NS provided by
the
> > ISP:
> >
> > search clientdomain.com
> > nameserver 192.168.3.222
> > nameserver 192.168.3.220
> > nameserver 192.168.3.219
> > nameserver 66.179.XXX.XXX  - ISP nameserver
> > nameserver 66.179.XXX.XXX  - ISP nameserver
> > nameserver 66.179.XX.XXX  - NS provided by data center used by client
> > nameserver 66.179.XX.XXX  - NS provided by data center used by client
> > nameserver 216.183.XXX.XXX  - NS provided by data center used by client
> > namserver 192.168.1.10
>
> I am 99% convinvced that what you need is a local caching name server on
> the mailserver.  Add it, then put 127.0.0.1 as your first nameserver
> in /etc/resolv.conf.


- After viewing /etc/named.conf again it appears it is setup for caching
already as there is line stating "a caching only nameserver config" at the
top of the file.  I could be wrong though...