On 16 Apr 2005, at 22:09, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
>
interesting. in that case it may be useful to find out which brand adsl
router and its settings, etc, for comparison with the mx=1 server. for
example, i've seen various problems (tho not this one) with the linksys
wag54g, with the 'firewall' active. note that the non-220 can also be
seen via:
http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx?domain=krwdigital.com&detailed=1
best regards
andrew
