Most likely because exim is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup for your IP
address to obtain the hostname, and it's timing out. 30 seconds it
exactly what I see when this happens.
Ben.
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Terry Shows wrote:
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> telnet to the port, and after about 30 seconds, it will finally give me the
> initial banner.
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> Thank You
> Terry Shows
> terry.shows@???
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