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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:06:19AM +0000, Konrad Michels wrote:
> Morning folks
> Ever since I've setup our mail hub in our iptables protected DMZ, I've
> noticed that there is a significant delay getting a response back from
> exim once connected to port 25. Telnetting to port 25 gets a fairly
> instantaneous "Connected to" message, but the Mail serer response after
> that could be anywhere up to 30 seconds!
>
looks like a dns reverse or an ident lookup
> Telnetting to port 25 on an identical Exim installation on the local LAN
> (ie no firewalling between me and the exim), the connection and response
> is instantaneous. What this suggests to me is that exim is trying to do
> something in that delay period for the machine behind the firewall,
> which the firewall is evidently not allowing. Question is what this is
> though.
>
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regards
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