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RE: Question about unknown[unknown] in log entry

From: MrC (lists-postfixcappella.us)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2007 - 18:30:42 CST


> > I'm curious about the following log entry, which was found
> on another
> > person's system. Can anyone shed some light on this? How
> can the IP
> > address not be know to postfix?
>
> Because the kernel threw away the endpoint information when
> the client disconnected.
>
> > lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[unknown]
> >
> > Postfix version is 2.3.5, with some milters.
>
> This a symptom of doing too much before-queue processing.
> When Postfix falls behind, established connections accumulate
> in the kernel, and clients disconnect after timeout while
> waiting for the SMTP server to respond.
>
> Wietse

Thanks Wietse. Makes perfect sense now.

MrC