[ale] Sendmail latency

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:11 -0500, Ryan Fish wrote:
> - All boxes have some combination of the following in /etc/resolv.conf.  All
> of them contain the first three and at least one of the NS provided by the
> ISP:
> 
> search clientdomain.com
> nameserver 192.168.3.222
> nameserver 192.168.3.220
> nameserver 192.168.3.219
> nameserver 66.179.XXX.XXX  - ISP nameserver
> nameserver 66.179.XXX.XXX  - ISP nameserver
> nameserver 66.179.XX.XXX  - NS provided by data center used by client
> nameserver 66.179.XX.XXX  - NS provided by data center used by client
> nameserver 216.183.XXX.XXX  - NS provided by data center used by client
> namserver 192.168.1.10

I am 99% convinvced that what you need is a local caching name server on
the mailserver.  Add it, then put 127.0.0.1 as your first nameserver
in /etc/resolv.conf. 

-Jim P.