Re: exim problem

[Ivan Wills]

Vineet Kumar wrote:

* Ivan Wills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040229 20:49]:
 

Recently the server has started to take about 30s before sending a email 
message. (It never did this before)
It does not matter what the size of the message is. It seems like the 
server is waiting for the 30s before listening to the client.
   

I'd guess exim is trying to do an ident lookup with the client, but the
client is silently dropping the ident requests.  (Bad packet filter!)
"30 seconds" smells like a timeout; either ident or reverse DNS.

This happens with every client?  Is there a packet filter on the server
side?  Or a DNS misconfiguration?
good times,
Vineet
The 30 seconds wait happens for all clients, and all the clients are 
behind a NAT firewall. So they are seen as one IP address ( which has an 
entry in the /etc/hosts file )
The firewalls name appears in the log files so it appears that exim is 
able to do a reverse look up.

There is not packet filter running on the server either.

Thank you for the suggestion though.

Ivan

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