Dayton Gray on 23 Dec 2003 16:37:03 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Debian + Exim help


On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:11:52 -0500, George Theall wrote
> 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
> -- 
> theall@tifaware.com

Ughh.. long day. That was it. I searched for many hours to find the answer to 
this one.

Thanks for the quick response!

Dayton
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