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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
>
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