Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz Date: To: Eduardo Fernandez Corrales CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] exim takes a long time to respond when connecting to port 25
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:26:40PM +0000, Eduardo Fernandez Corrales wrote: > Hello,
>
> I have a machine running linux 2.0.36 with exim 2.05 and the connection
> to port 25 takes a lot (about 30 seconds) until the connection opens and
> the exim smtp banner shows up.
Probably your are connecting from behind a firewall, blocking the
ident-port. This typically results into 30 seconds delay - unless
you configure exim not to do ident-lookups (look at the "rfc1413"-
options in the manual.
