Re: [Exim] Connections to SMTP host..

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Author: Tabor J. Wells
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To: Derrick MacPherson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Connections to SMTP host..
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:25:26PM -0700,
Derrick MacPherson <derrick@???> is thought to have said:

> I noticed a delay when recieving mail on one server, and not really
> knowing how to figure out what the delay was, I did a quick man -k on
> trace, and saw the command truss. Now I don't know jack about truss, so
> I will put the output here, and maybe someone offlist can tell me if
> there is anything of interest here, and if it looks like a problem
> here... (this is a truss -p pid#)
>
>
> (null)()                                         = 1 (0x1)
> accept(0x0,0xbfbff30c,0xbfbff238)                = 1 (0x1)
> dup(0x1)                                         = 2 (0x2)
> fcntl(0x1,0x3,0x0)                               = 2 (0x2)
> fcntl(0x2,0x3,0x0)                               = 2 (0x2)
> fork()                                           = 66779 (0x104db)
> close(2)                                         = 0 (0x0)
> close(1)                                         = 0 (0x0)
> wait4(0xffffffff,0xbfbff22c,0x1,0x0)             = 0 (0x0)
> SIGNAL 20
> SIGNAL 20
> SIGNAL 20
> select(0x1,0xbfbff240,0x0,0x0,0x0)               ERR#4 'Interrupted
> system call'
> sigaction(SIGCHLD,0xbfbfeff4,0xbfbfefdc)         = 0 (0x0)
> sigreturn(0xbfbff048)                            ERR#4 'Interrupted
> system call'
> wait4(0xffffffff,0xbfbff22c,0x1,0x0)             = 66779 (0x104db)
> wait4(0xffffffff,0xbfbff22c,0x1,0x0)


This doesn't show anything except that it forked off a child process.

You'd be better of trying to debug this using the built-in debugging
features in exim (using, say, 'exim -d11 -bh <ip of server>' to simulate
a SMTP session with that server). The -d11 will allow you to see the
results of the DNS lookups that occur, in case you're dealing with DNS
time outs, say.

It's probably DNS or your rfc_1413_query_timeout being set too high while
the remote site is blocling identd lookups.

Tabor

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Tabor J. Wells                                     twells@???
Fsck It!                 Just another victim of the ambient morality