Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:57:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: delay in connecting to port 25 Message-ID: <20010713115650.D25152-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <86sng03k2n.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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It could be trying to reverse lookup your address. Not sure exatly, as I've never used exim. Joe Clarke On 13 Jul 2001, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running exim from a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it is > listening on port 25. > > When trying to connect to port 25 on that machine, I get the > following... > > Trying 213.x.x.x... > Connected to services.realtime.co.uk. > Escape character is '^]'. > > It sits like this for about 34 seconds and then I get > 220 mail.myserver.com ESMTP Exim 3.22 #1 Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:51:10 +0100 > > What could be causing this? Telnet to port 113 on the machine gives me > > telnet: connect to address 213.x.x.x: Connection refused > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > > instantly, so it's not sitting dropping packets at the firewall for > auth or anything like that.... ? > > TIA, > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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