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Old 19th June 2015
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Default sendmail slower after 9 to 10 upgrade

Since upgrading from 9-rel to 10-rel sendmail is pausing for 5-8 seconds below:


mail -v -s "test from web1" test@test.com

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EOT

test@test.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...


***the above line takes 5 seconds then the rest of the output is quick and sends the e-mail fine




220 web1.ctest.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.9/8.14.9; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:50:52 -0400 (EDT)
>>> EHLO web1.ctest.net
250-web1.ctest.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> STARTTLS
220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
>>> EHLO web1.ctest.net
250-web1.ctest.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<c@web1.ctest.net> SIZE=42
250 2.1.0 <c@web1.ctest.net>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<test@test.com>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <test@test.com>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 t5JIoqOn021612 Message accepted for delivery
test@test.com... Sent (t5JIoqOn021612 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 web1.ctest.net closing connection



resolvers are both good and working. hosts file is fine. I have an old machine on the same lan that works ok so it's not the FW....i'm stumped..and always on a friday!
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Old 19th June 2015
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[root@web1 /etc/mail/certs]# dig -x 127.0.0.1
Code:
; <<>> DiG 9.10.2 <<>> -x 127.0.0.1

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5054

;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.                IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 1800    IN      PTR     localhost.

;; Query time: 0 msec

;; SERVER: 10.1.1.2#53(10.1.1.2)

;; WHEN: Fri Jun 19 17:32:00 EDT 2015

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63
[root@web1 /etc/mail/certs]# cat /etc/hosts

Code:
::1             localhost localhost.mydomain.net
127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.mydomain.net
10.1.1.39       web1.ctest.net  web1
10.1.1.39       web1.ctest.net.

same results with : 

::1               localhost  web1.ctest.net  web1 web1.ctest.net.
127.0.0.1      localhost  web1.ctest.net  web1 web1.ctest.net.

Last edited by chuckdevguy; 20th June 2015 at 05:23 AM. Reason: more info
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Old 20th June 2015
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Hello, and welcome!

You mention resolvers are good, and you show us you get a reverse lookup of 127.0.0.1 to localhost in 0 milliseconds, but what you didn't show is is the resolution time for test.com, the FQDN you were sending your test mail to.

I'll guess that $ dig test.com might not resolve so quickly.

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Edited to add a second guess, which is probably better.

My second guess is that you have a mismatch between the forward DNS resolution for test.com, and the reverse DNS resolution of localhost, and sendmail is therefore waiting for a resolution timeout.

Last edited by jggimi; 20th June 2015 at 01:46 PM. Reason: added forward/reverse resolution mismatch
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Old 20th June 2015
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thanks for the welcome and reply!

Here's the output for another few domains as well:



# dig test.com
Code:
; <<>> DiG 9.10.2 <<>> test.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40757
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;test.com.                      IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
test.com.               3600    IN      A       23.91.14.101

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
test.com.               172800  IN      NS      ns66.worldnic.com.
test.com.               172800  IN      NS      ns65.worldnic.com.

;; Query time: 87 msec
;; SERVER: 10.1.1.2#53(10.1.1.2)
;; WHEN: Sat Jun 20 16:09:14 EDT 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 100

# dig -x google.com
Code:
; <<>> DiG 9.10.2 <<>> -x google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 29078
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;com.google.in-addr.arpa.       IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
in-addr.arpa.           5       IN      SOA     b.in-addr-servers.arpa. nstld.iana.org. 2014054330 1800 900 604800 3600

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 10.1.1.2#53(10.1.1.2)
;; WHEN: Sat Jun 20 16:10:37 EDT 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 120

The delay line actually happens to any e-mail domain I try so I haven't been looking into the destination domain much.

There is no ip6 in my rc.conf for it to delay on either. The delay is 5-8 seconds which isn't the typical 30 I'm used to for dns stuff.

Is there a new or changed sendmail configuration I should look into?
The sendmail config file is cryptic to me

Last edited by chuckdevguy; 20th June 2015 at 08:27 PM. Reason: config question
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Now you've confused me. * If the test.com you are resolving is the "real" test.com, why then does your log in your first post resolve it to the loopback address?

For further problem source identification, I would turn to a network monitoring tool such as tcpdump(8) and see if the delay source can be determined.

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Old 21st June 2015
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I'm going to look into how to use tcpdump since you mentioned it. Never tried it before.


To get a clearer view, here's a another run of the command to gmail with the same results.

I've included date before and after, maybe someone can try to time their results to their own email if running 10.1-rel ?



$ date && echo "hi" | mail -v -s "subject" my.gmail.acct@gmail.com && date

Code:
Sun Jun 21 12:42:04 EDT 2015

my.gmail.acct@gmail.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...

** the usual 5-8 sec delay issue **

220 machine.mydomain.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.9/8.14.9; Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
>>> EHLO machine.mydomain.net
250-machine.mydomain.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> STARTTLS
220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
>>> EHLO machine.mydomain.net
250-machine.mydomain.net Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> MAIL From:<devuser@machine.mydomain.net> SIZE=44
250 2.1.0 <devuser@machine.mydomain.net>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<my.gmail.acct@gmail.com>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <my.gmail.acct@gmail.com>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 2.0.0 t5LGg9KA005899 Message accepted for delivery
my.gmail.acct@gmail.com... Sent (t5LGg9KA005899 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 machine.mydomain.net closing connection

Sun Jun 21 12:42:09 EDT 2015
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Quote:
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I'm going to look into how to use tcpdump since you mentioned it. Never tried it before.
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...maybe someone can try to time their results to their own email if running 10.1-rel ?
Maybe. But I think you'd have better luck with tcpdump traces, which log to the microsecond. I can't recreate your problem, as I've never used FreeBSD, and haven't used sendmail in many years.
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Old 22nd June 2015
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well, just to conclude the thread:

I replaced sendmail with postfix and everything works out of the box. something is going on with sendmail around freebsd version 10.1-rel from what i've read in the freebsd mailinglist.

postfix looks to have a well documented website with some real world scenarios. sendmail just seems overall cryptic to me.

no solution, but maybe this can save someone else a day of tinkering
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