From: Doug Monroe <doug@planetconnect.com>
To: Nathan Cassano <nathan@cjhunter.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: TCP delay, SMTP errors
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:35:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D052994.CD0F1237@planetconnect.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001601c210bf$d1a5fef0$2901a8c0@amos
Nathan Cassano wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> Our website (on an internal NAT'ed network) connects our email
> server (on an external network). The website uses a SMTP PHP class to
> send mail using socket connections. The problem is a delay in connecting
> to the mail server that causes the class to quit prematurely. I fixed
> the problem by adding a function call to sleep(1) after fsockopen() but
> this is a hack. Is there a better way to fix this TCP delay? I tried
> setting the TOS value to Minimize-Delay but I didn't see any difference.
> Any suggestions are welcome.
what happens when you use telnet from the website box to the mail server's
port 25? do you get a delay rec'ving the SMTP banner? Likely has nothing to do
with netfilter...my money's on a paranoid SMTP trying to do a reverse DNS
lookup (or identd?) causing the delay. Maybe there's no PTR record for the NAT
(public) IP of the website? Maybe your SMTP server has a big-ish list of DNS
hosts to try before it finally timesout?
--
Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-10 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-10 20:45 TCP delay, SMTP errors Nathan Cassano
2002-06-10 22:18 ` Ramin Alidousti
2002-06-10 22:35 ` Doug Monroe [this message]
2002-06-11 10:41 ` Simon A. Boggis
2002-06-11 15:54 ` Nathan Cassano
2002-06-11 17:34 ` Ramin Alidousti
2002-06-11 22:00 ` TCP delay Nathan Cassano
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