Or problems getting to an RBL server if you are using one.
Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:03:25AM +0200, Salvatore Greco wrote:
> > This is the version of Exim that I'm using and it takes forever for the
> > greeting banner to come up and exim to accept the mail message for delivery,
> > and as such, the error on the sending MX is :
>
> Try exim -bh <foreign ip address>, (e.g. "exim -bh 194.216.238.11")
> and see what the messages say. They'll say what type of checks they're
> doing so you can see if it's (as someone else suggested) reverse DNS
> or identd lookups (or both!) holding it up.
>
> I reckon it's identd if having the reverse DNS cached doesn't help
> (which appears to me to be the case).
>
> SRH
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> Steve Haslam, Production Engineer, Excite UK steve.haslam@???
> i sit and stare at the gun pointed at my head
> and think about all the possibilities
>
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