On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:11:40PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Hi, > > Why is it that Exim4 (4.60) still waits for an alarm() to occur when a > connection to ident has been rejected with a RST? At least, that is what > seems to happen. > > My nagios box rejects ident connections with a TCP RST packet, which > results in a 'Connection refused'. This is the best way to block ident > calls, but Exim still waits for something after connecting and receiving > the connection refused according to this strace retrieved from 'strace > -tt -ff -p $pid', the relevant part:
Might also be worth adding "-T" ("Show the time spent in system calls").
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