Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:05:01 +0100 From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delay in connecting to port 25 Message-ID: <20010713170501.K28733@rannoch.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <86sng03k2n.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>; from wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:49:52PM %2B0100 References: <86sng03k2n.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:49:52PM +0100, 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, > Is it trying to do a reverse DNS lookup on the box which is connecting to it ? The timeouts are long for DNS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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