Hi Sheldon,
Thanks. The problem was indeed ident timeouts. I have sorted this out, and
Exim is now very much happier. :-) Also, thanks for the education on
using Exim's debugging listener, which is fantastic.
Michael
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:52:04PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn (sheldonh@???) wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:59:26 +0100, Michael Wells wrote:
>
> > Eventually I ran ktrace, to look at Exim's system calls . The section
> > below is just after Exim forked to respond to my telnet on
> > localhost 25. What does "connect -1 errno 36 Operation now in progress"
> > mean to anyone; is there something about this that suggests a problem
> > with the bind?
>
> ktrace is _very_ low level, given how few possibilities you've ruled
> out. :-)
>
> Find out where the delay actually occurs by running a debugging listener
> on a non-standard port and connecting to that port, e.g.
>
> /usr/local/sbin/exim -d 9 -bd -oX 2525
>
> Is the delay about 30 seconds? If so, are you sure ident lookups are
> immediately refused (rather than silently dropped)?
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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