> I've got a user who is seeing a 25 second delay when connecting
> to port 25. I've thrown up a tcpdump session, and can verify
> there is a delay, and it apparently is a delay on our end. I
> can't figure why though. Here's a snippet of log info:
Your tcpserver is doing an ident lookup on his machine, and his
machine is not answering the ident port. The default timeout for ident
lookups in tcpserver is 26 seconds.
This answer assumes that the tcpdump log you showed was pared down
only to include SMTP lines. I assume that a full tcpdump would also show
the ident query going out.
You can turn off ident lookups using the -R option to tcpserver, or
you can change the timeout using the -ttimeout option. These two options
are detailed in the man page for tcpserver (although they never refer to
this as an ident lookup - it is "setting TCPREMOTEINFO").
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