Hi to all, I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ...
(smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) If I do a ping smrgol I get an instant answer, but if I telnet smrgol it takes about 30s until I'm connected. On the other hand telnet 10.1.1.1 connects instantly. Another problem is exim. It normally is started from inetd, so I do telnet 10.1.1.1 smtp and after I get the connected message it takes about 30s until exims greeting is displayed. I tried to start exim as a daemon, and then it takes 30s for the daemon to start up. - What could cause these delays? - That ping is instant could mean it's inetd, which takes such a long time? - Could it be that wrong file permissions cause something like this? (I had a problem with exim being unable to write to its log files, because it was started as user "mail", and its log files were writable only by "root". Thanks for your help. Ingo