Re: Sendmail's host status cacheing (HostStatusDirectory)
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it just me and my Sendmail (the one in stable), or does it seem to
> cache rather aggressively the host status of other mail relays?
>
> We've got an intermediate SMTP relay that relays down to clients, and a
> client's SMTP server blew up and was repaired at 2pm, and at 5pm, our
> Sendmail was still considering it to be down, purely because of what was
> in the HostStatusDirectory.
>
> I notice that the Sendmail default is to have this switched off, however
> the Debian default is to turn it on. Would the Sendmail maintainer like to
> comment on the efficacy of this option, and indeed the rationale behind
> enabling at the default?
Hi,
I had difficulties with this option too and because of the fact that
I do not need I disabled it.
Oliver
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