Very slow sendmail greeting
Morris Jones
mojo at whiteoaks.com
Tue Feb 29 21:36:07 UTC 2000
Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote:
>Morris Jones <mojo at whiteoaks.com> wrote:
>>As I was testing our mail relaying, I noticed that sendmail was taking
>>a very long time to answer a connect to port 25 with an SMTP greeting,
>>about 30 seconds. This was true on my machine and his.
>
>Many sendmails are configured to perform an IDENT query, which means they
>try to connect to port 113 of the client machine. There's a 30-second
>timeout on this.
Indeed, it's the ident timeout. Problem solved. Thank you!
Mojo
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