Re: Long delay on smtp connect

[Dave Sill]

Jon Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>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.
>
>Any ideas on where the delay is coming from?

Look at the -H and -R options to tcpserver. Your delay is almost
certainly due to either slow DNS lookups or IDENT timeouts, and
probably the latter.

-Dave