From: Randy Banks <randy@???>
> Dear Exim Gurus -
>
> I've only just joined the list, so apologies in advance if I break in
> any rules.
>
> We've been happily running exim 2.05 on all our Sun (SunOS 4.1.4,
> Solaris 2.6) systems for quite a while now with no problems. Since
> sometime this morning, however, all of our mailers have gone on a go-
> slow for no apparent reason (or, at least, none that I can discover).
>
> In particular, when the Exim demon forks a copy of itself to handle an
> incoming SMTP request, the forked copy seems to go around in circles
> for a significant (up to 5 minutes, so far) amount of time before
> deciding to handle the delivery (whether it be local or one to pass
> onwards).
I noticed a similar problem today, and running with
"exim -d9 -bh some_ip_address", discovered that it is due to the
sudden disappearence of the rbl dssl.imrss.org. When I
commented it out, things started running smoothly again.
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