[ic] Interchange slower on a faster machine?

[Sam Hui]

Jon,

Thanks, that was it since the DNS has not switch over to the production
servers yet, it couldn't resolve its own domain name.

-Sam

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:57:03 -0600 (CST)
> From: Jon Jensen <jon@akopia.com>
> To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Interchange slower on a faster machine?
> Reply-To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
>
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Sam Hui wrote:
>
> > We are having a wierd problem that we do not have on our 3
> dev servers, only
> > on our 2 production servers.  Tracing the code, we found
> the following lines
> > in Order.pm under sub order_route cause a pause of 1-3min
> each during the
> > submit order process.
> >
> >     $page = interpolate_html($page) if $page;
> >     send_mail(@$msg);
>
> Sounds to me like you have a problem with your name server.
> sendmail looks
> up the hostname of your server and the MX record of the machine you're
> sending mail to, and tends to go *very* slow if there's any
> trouble there.
> You can test this theory by trying to send mail from
> something like 'mail'
> or 'pine' on that server, and seeing if that hangs as well. Or you can
> just remove the send_mail command -- it should work fine and
> then you can
> start figuring out what's wrong with your mail configuration.
>
> Jon