Hi John,
Guess it's not much consolation, but I reinstalled my rh6.1 box last
night. Also put a new exim 3.12 on and don't suffer from your problem ;-)
However, try,
strace /opt/exim/bin/exim -d5 -bd
Then telnet in and see what system command it is hanging on - may help
somewhat...
Cheers,
aid
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, John Horne wrote:
> Not really a problem this, but I'm curious as to what is going on. Running
> exim 3.12 on a redhat 6.1 linux box if I:
>
> telnet 141.163.17.61 25 (the linux box)
> or telnet jhorne.csd.plymouth.ac.uk 25
>
> then I get an immediate response from exim (the 220 ...ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1)
>
> If I:
>
> telnet localhost 25
> or telnet 127.0.0.1 25
> or telnet 0 25
>
> then I get a slow response. I get the telnet connection straight away but
> then it waits a while until the 220 line shows. Timing this shows it is
> about 75 seconds.
>
> I disabled ident (rfc1413) lookups for 141.163/16 and 'localhost' and am
> running a caching DNS which has localhost defined (as does the /etc/hosts
> file). So now I am stumped as to why I get the slow response. If I use the
> FTP port (21) then I get an immediate response no matter which address/name
> I use (as expected).
>
> Anyone any ideas? Nothing shows in the exim logs or any of system logs, and
> 'telnet -d' shows nothing extra. I get a similar result on our Sun/solaris 7
> systems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
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