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Re: Issue with sendmail and LVS

To: Ted Pavlic <tpavlic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Issue with sendmail and LVS
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:33:37 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ted Pavlic wrote:

> When I try to telnet to port 25 on a virtual server, I connect, sendmail
> sits and waits and waits and waits and waits and after a LONG while it
> displays the 220 string and allows me to enter commands. It's as if it waits
> to timeout on some DNS query on connection, but it doesn't make sense to me
> why it would only have a problem when things were going through the LVS.

it's probably timing out on identd (30secs)

>From the HOWTO on sendmail

        identd problems:
        Sendmail can't use identd when running on an LVS.

        Edit your sendmail.cf file and set the value
        Timeout.ident=0

Joe


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