Re: Port 25 Delay

[Matt Hemingway <matt@supplyedge.com>]

Yeah, the problem is the with reverse lookups.  It's a long, twisted scary story, but it should be resolved today.

Thanks for the reply's all!

-Matt

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:08:05 +0100 (BST)
"Jamie Harris" <jamie@jharris.homeip.net> wrote:

> > It's not ident or port 113.
> 
> And you're 100% sure on this yeah?  You want to ensure that your server is
> reporting the port closed not silently dropping the packet (or the
> firewall silently dropping the packet) as you'll get exactly the behaviour
> you are describing - a very long wait while connections are retried to
> ident on the assumption that earlier packets were lost.
> 
> > Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  If you want some
> > more info, lemme know.
> 
> How are your reverse name lookups behaving?  Can you reverse lookup the
> hosts on both subnets.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jamie...
> 
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