Norihisa Washitake rearranged electrons thusly:
> When I use telnet on port 25 through internet (i.e. not locally), I
> have to wait about 30 seconds before the server respondes: "220
> mail.gens.co.jp ESMTP Exim...." On other ports like 22 (SSH), I
> don't have to wait.
This is likely to be an identd timeout, or a dns / rDNS problem.
-suresh
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