Are you connecting through a firewall that blackholes instead of
refuses ident requests Look for rfc1413 in the exim documentation
to see how to turn off identd requests for certain hosts.
You can also a look at the faq.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.00/doc/html/FAQ_19.html#TOC260
Fred
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
RB> so what might be causing the loooong pause
RB>
RB> % telnet localhost 25
RB> Trying 127.0.0.1...
RB> Connected to localhost.
RB> Escape character is '^]'.
RB> <*** very long pause, about thirty seconds ***>
RB> 220 barre.foux.edu ESMTP Exim 4.04 Wed, 22 May 2002 11:07:45 -0700
RB> quit
RB> 221 barre.foux.edu closing connection
RB> Connection closed by foreign host.
RB>
RB> i don't get it to all other hosts, just some. i don't get it from
RB> another host to this host.
RB>
RB> same on another exim4 host.
RB>
RB> dns for the hostname, the in-addr.arpa for the ip address,
RB> localhost, 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, etc. are all fine.
RB>
RB> randy
RB>
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Le dernier mail que je vous ai envoye contenait surement un virus
extremement dangereux. Pour vous en debarasser vous devez re-formater
et re-installer votre Windows.
echo "bsdhost@fred-net" | sed 's/\(.*\)@\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\2@\1.\3/'