Re: [MacPerl] Net::SMTP and Mail::Internet->smtpsend in MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 16.34 -0500 1999.02.16, Christian Schaller wrote:
>At 2:29 PM -0500 2/16/99, Chris Nandor wrote:

>Hm. Well, both machines have real names in real DNSes, though you seem
>to have hit the problem on the head regardless. Sure enough, when I
>looked at the program that was executing without delay (the one in which
>I use Net::SMTP directly, not Mail::Internet), I found that I'd been
>supplying the Hello parameter. If I comment it out, there's the delay
>again.
>
>So it really does seem to be a DNS lookup that's the problem.
>
>># fail. So I put this on line 218 of Net::Domain 2.09:
>>#
>>#     return $fqdn = $host if ($host =~ /\./ && $host =~ /^[\d.]+$/);
>
>I put that in as you suggested, on line 218 of Net::Domain 2.09. It
>didn't seem to help matters, though.

Right, if the machine actually has a name and DNS lookup problems, this
won't help anything, since this tests to see if a name has only numbers and
dots in it.

I don't know why you'd be having the problems, but you will hit them any
time you try to use hostfqdn or domainname in Net::Domain.  This needs
looking into.

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