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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with mail in 2.1R (and 2.0R!) Date: 12 Feb 1996 20:36:22 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 47 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fo8c6$ahd@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <4fnrut$bfa@news.unicomp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapehost.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <4fnrut$bfa@news.unicomp.net>, grutz@tk.orgˆ says... > >I can't exactly say WHEN this problem started happening but I know it seems >to be around the time we upgraded from 1.1R to 2.0R and it has persisted >when upgrading to 2.1R and all permutations of sendmail. > >the error: > >Feb 12 10:07:28 tk sendmail[787]: JAA00787: SYSERR(root): collect: read timeout >on connection from listserv.cnet.com, from=<owner-dispatch@LISTSERV.CNET.COM> > >Mail never gets through and sendmail will sit and sit and wait and wait >until eventually it does timeout. > >Here's what a ps -agx looks like when it's running: > > 854 ?? I 0:00.16 sendmail: server listserv.cnet.com child wait (sendma > 855 ?? I 0:00.33 sendmail: KAA00855 listserv.cnet.com [204.162.80.120] > 1273 ?? I 0:00.17 sendmail: server listserv.cnet.com child wait (sendma > 1279 ?? I 0:00.36 sendmail: KAA01279 listserv.cnet.com [204.162.80.120] > >We are using SLIP at 28.8k - tty is set to 57600 but no diff when using >115200 ... > >I know ti.com and aol.com have both had this problem with us and i'll be >damned if I can find ANY reason why. Even installed the latest and >greatest sendmail ... to no avail. > >Anyone??? > >PLEASE? :-) > >Thanks! >--- > Kurt Grutzmacher, TK Consulting http://www.tk.org/~grutz > Provider to the penniless indivual, http://www.tk.org/ > non-profit organizations, and clubs grutz@tk.org What brand of terminal server is at the other end of your 28.8k SLIP line? My guess that the terminal server is choking on CSLIP headers & TCP extensions. Try plain SLIP (not CSLIP). Tom