I missed the original, but
> > 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.
Are you connecting through a firewall that blackholes (instead of
refuses) ident requests? Look for rfc1413 in the exim documentation
to see how to turn off identd requests for certain hosts.
-j
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