George Theall on 23 Dec 2003 16:12:03 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Debian + Exim help


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 03:38:48PM -0500, Dayton Gray wrote:

> Whenever I telnet to port 25 from 
> an outside network, there is a decent delay before I get the Exim prompt to 
> send mail (about 30 seconds or so).
...
> I have commented out the host_lookup line in the configuration file and set 
> my firewall rules to reject all requests on port 113 (ident). 

Perhaps this is a silly question, but you're rejecting traffic
*destined* to port 113, right? Do you see similar delays if you
explicitly disable ident (by setting rfc1413_query_timeout to 0s)?

George
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