John Horne <J.Horne@???> probably said:
> 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).
Have you tried running a second instance of exim on a high port with
debugging on, telnetting and watching what it things it's doing in
that time ?
P.
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