Hi Philip,
That's precisely where the problem was. I had a spammer's domain in there
which obviously no longer works (wow.. some ISPs actually do something
about it).. I thought it would be a DNS lookup, but I didn't spot the
connection.. I guess one learns something new every day :-)
Thanks for your help,
Sebastien.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:25:23 +0100 (BST)
> From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
> To: Sebastien Lahtinen <seb-exim@???>
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP Coversation delay
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Sebastien Lahtinen wrote:
>
> > When I telnet to the host on port 25, for around 1 min 20 secs, nothing
> > happens, then it pops up the 220 acknowledgement.
>
> <snip>
>
> > listening on port 25...
> > host in host_lookup? no (option unset)
> >
> > --> 1min 20sec delay <--
> >
> >
> > host in host_reject? no (end of list)
>
> What is the contents of "host_reject"?
>
> I bet you have got some wild card item in there, causing Exim to do a
> DNS lookup to find the host name.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
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