Re: [exim] RFC 1413 default on debian

That makes a lot of sense from a Debian point of view... but why is
Exim configured like this by default? Is it an RFC constraint?

Ian

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:15:38 -0500, Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
> Ian Firla wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering why exim4 on debian defaults to making RFC 1413
> > identification calls on all hosts?
> >
> > It took me a bit to work out why smtp connections were taking 30
> > seconds to get a response from the server... setting
> > rfc1413_query_timeout to 0 resolved the problem but I'm not sure
> > about the "correctness" of that.
> >
> > Surely there's a reason why Debian configures it to look up all hosts
> > and sets the time out to 30...
>
> As the debian config file states in the comments, those settings are the
> same as Exim's defaults. The config file shipped with the debian
> package just includes them explicitly so it's easy for you to figure out
> where to change them.
>
> I think I agree that it's not the right default setting, but that's an
> Exim issue, not a Debian issue.
>
> - Marc
>