If DNS is the issue, then switch to the free DNS servers at Level 3.<br><br>Add this to the /etc/resolv.conf file:<br><br><br># Level 3 DNS servers<br>nameserver 4.2.2.5<br>nameserver 4.2.2.6<br><br>Before the Rogers ones. <br>
<br>If nothing else, it will eliminate DNS as a cause.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Chris Frey wrote, On 12/27/2008 4:52 PM:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Has anyone watched the POP3 protocol in action during these delays?<br>
> Perhaps it is an overloaded server.<br>
><br>
> You can telnet to the POP3 port and do things manually as well, and see<br>
> if the delay is seen there, or if it is just a fetchmail thing.<br>
><br>
> I can't imagine it would be a DNS issue between messages, since it is the<br>
> same TCP connection. If it was a DNS issue, it would have to be some odd<br>
> configuration on the server side that had to look up a domain name for<br>
> every email.<br>
<br>
</div>Perhaps not. Paul reported weird Rogers DNS issues not long ago. Or<br>
suppose the primary DNS provider doesn't have an answer for the query,<br>
and it's falling back to query the secondary. Since no answer<br>
resulted, the query is not locally cached, and each subsequent attempt<br>
goes through the same failure scenario. Or suppose the initial query<br>
is given up on and fetchmail moves on. Something akin to fetching a<br>
web page but the images within are not resolvable.<br>
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