On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:52:57 +0200, Andrew Nimmo
<andrew.nimmo+exim.org@???> wrote:
>no (ok, 20 minutes or so...). note however, i continued testing and
>modified the firewall to not deny on 113 (because that was an obvious
>difference). a subsequent connect to mail.krwdigital.com responded with
>a 220 almost immediately, as expected. initial findings would suggest
>an ident-related issue, so i would consider the poster's exim config
>ident settings, first. i've not checked, but were there any related
>issues with 4.44?
I don't remember any. Both servers probably run with Debian's default
configuration, which means that ident requests are always sent out.
This usually does not do any harm besides the usual 30 seconds delay
on incoming mail from sites with broken firewall setups. I have never
seen this causing remote sites to hang.
Greetings
Marc
--
-------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -----
Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header
Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/
Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
