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Author: Ricardo J. Michell
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] SMTP command timeout on connection from
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I started to get the following messages when receiving email from
bellsouth.net.



2004-03-08 12:53:17 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.59]

2004-03-08 12:55:32 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.62]

2004-03-08 12:55:43 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.62]

2004-03-08 12:55:48 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.60]

2004-03-08 12:57:10 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.69]

2004-03-08 12:58:07 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.70]

2004-03-08 12:59:32 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.72]

2004-03-08 13:00:04 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.72]

2004-03-08 13:00:13 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.62]

2004-03-08 13:01:40 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.54]

2004-03-08 13:01:40 SMTP command timeout on connection from
[205.152.59.50]



What is interesting is that, If I traceroute the IP address without the
-I option I get timeouts, but with the -I works fine. For example:



4 tpa-edge-03.inet.qwest.net (63.237.255.173) 18.910 ms 19.624 ms
19.993 ms

5 tpa-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.27.25) 19.332 ms 19.813 ms
19.247 ms

6 atl-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.5.65) 69.786 ms 42.562 ms
31.329 ms

7 atl-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.150) 62.882 ms 29.968 ms
29.776 ms

8 atl-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.102) 70.418 ms 29.519 ms
48.940 ms

9 205.171.4.242 (205.171.4.242) 29.762 ms 30.131 ms 29.858 ms

10 0.so-2-3-0.xl2.atl5.alter.net (152.63.82.194) 29.982 ms 30.137 ms
30.432 ms

11 0.so-7-0-0.GW13.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.84.109) 30.313 ms 31.078 ms
30.195 ms

12 bellsouth-atl5-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.71.170) 46.336 ms
45.776 ms 45.608 ms

13 axr00asm-0-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.1) 45.713 ms 46.767 ms
47.762 ms

14 ixc00asm-4-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.1) 45.590 ms 46.383 ms
45.597 ms

15 205.152.152.46 (205.152.152.46) 46.311 ms 46.009 ms 46.944 ms

16 205.152.152.150 (205.152.152.150) 108.268 ms 47.120 ms 46.346 ms

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I don't really know why I keep getting this message.



Is there anything I can change inside Exim to stop these messages? Or
maybe the way it talks to the other server. I spoke with Bellsouth and
they say nothing is wrong in their side. But they told me that they
don't accept UDP datagrams to those servers.



Any help is greatly appreciated.





Thanks,



Ricardo J. Michell

SCO MASTER ACE

Michell Consulting Group, Inc.

305.592.5433

rmichell@???

www.michellgroup.com



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