Re: [Exim] slow smtp connection

Oliver Thiele wrote:

> Hello exim guys,
>
> I use exim 3.36 as "Internet site" mail server for quite some time.
> Since a few weeks I have discovered a smtp connection delay for about 30
> seconds in every outgoing mail. There are no signs in exim log or even
> syslog. So I sent a test mail while printing some output to the screen:
>
> tasknet:/var/log# exim -bd -N
> LOG: 0 MAIN
> Failed to create IPv6 socket for wildcard listening (Address family
> not supported by protocol): falling back to IPv4
> LOG: 0 MAIN
> exim 3.36 daemon started: pid=13779, no queue runs, listening for SMTP
> on port 25
>
> --> This step takes 30 seconds!
>
> Connection request from 82.83.171.34/26126

                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> --
>
> I checked my configuration and found nothing. Does anybody have a
> suggestion on resloving this problem?


Looks like you've a nameserver problem.
What happens when you try to resolve the ip with the host/nslookup command?

Nico