Jay wrote:
> My sendmail installation had been running just fine until recently. It
> seems that upon connecting to my mail servers port 25 it hangs for
> about 20 seconds before connecting. This happens no matter if i'm on a
> linux box, windows box, mac, localhost or a remote host. I thought
> maybe it was an IDENT issue so i set the ident timeout to 1s but it was
> still giving the issue so I went ahead and disabled IDENT in sendmail
> using ''OrIdent=0'', yet the issue still occurs.
>
> CPU and/or memory shouldn't be an issue, theres plenty of power on this
> server.
>

Are you using the now defunct ordb.org dnsbl? They recently turned it off.

dp