On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:42:39AM +0200, Andrew Nimmo wrote:
>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
>>
>>I don't remember any. Both servers probably run with Debian's default
>>configuration, which means that ident requests are always sent out.
>
>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
I'd normally suspect bad firewalling (dropping icmp, mtu issues at your end
etc when you have mailservers frontended by cheap adsl firewall appliances)
And if you are doing something like callbacks to our systems, they're
normally busy, so you can face major delays there as well
srs
