On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Stephen Marquard wrote:
> As a check by hand showed this delay to be about 60s, I found
>
> rfc1413_query_timeout
>
> which defaults to 60s. It turned out that ident requests to the
> server attempting to send mail were being firewalled, with the result
> that they timed out at 60s instead of failing immediately with
> 'connection refused' or returning a response.
we've found that Lotus's Notes smtp gateway times out with this setting too.
we tried in vain to determine why the Notes user didn't have ident on his
machine (there was no answer from his TCP/IP stack)... and his Notes
manuals didn't help.
I guess 60s is a very long time, too long for many protocol stacks then.
Paul
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