[thelist] Takes 1 minute for PHP to send email

[patrick]

Have you checked your DNS settings? Have these changed? Do you have a
reverse DNS entry as well?

patrick sanders
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Tony Grimes wrote:

>We're seeing a one minute delay when people submit some of our PHP forms. I
>eventually tracked it down to sendmail. Whenever PHP tries to send an email,
>sendmail sends it, but it takes about a minute for it to return true so that
>PHP can get on with the rest of the script.
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>Has anyone experienced this before? We think it has something to do with the
>network we're on (this problem only occurred after we moved the server).
>It's behind a D-Link router/firewall with DHCP disabled and port 25
>forwarded to a dedicated mail server (i.e. not the server running the
>script). We've gone over the configuration a hundred times, run all sorts of
>tests and even set up a duplicate system on another network (which had no
>problems). All we can figure out is that it might be a name server issue
>(we've eliminated PHP and sendmail as a cause).
>
>We're also seeing a lag with FTP and SSH, but I'm not sure if it's related.
>It takes our computers about 20-30 seconds to connect via FTP (just for the
>initial connection; all transfers afterward proceed as normal). We have the
>same problem with SSH.
>
>I realize it's hard to give advice on system/network configurations when you
>don't have direct access, but I'm hoping someone will recognize these
>symptoms and know of a fix, or even the cause.
>
>Our sys admin is stumped, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Tony
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