[CentOS] sendmail delay in presenting banner

Mon Mar 24 17:46:59 UTC 2014
Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014, John R Pierce wrote:
>On 3/23/2014 11:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>> nslookup NAME.DOMAIN.com 127.0.0.1  I appropriately get 10.0.0.187
>>
>> So far I am stumped on this problem, if any of you have suggestions I
>> would appreciate your help
>
>in your DNS server, create a reverse zone for 10.0.0.0/8,  like, 
>10.in-addr.arpa,  even if it doesn't have any records other than NS and SOA.

Another thing that can cause long delays is to use obsolete RBLs.

Bill
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