so what might be causing the loooong pause
% telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
<*** very long pause, about thirty seconds ***>
220 barre.foux.edu ESMTP Exim 4.04 Wed, 22 May 2002 11:07:45 -0700
quit
221 barre.foux.edu closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
i don't get it to all other hosts, just some. i don't get it from
another host to this host.
same on another exim4 host.
dns for the hostname, the in-addr.arpa for the ip address,
localhost, 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, etc. are all fine.
randy