> Tonight I was thinking that the Firewall could be the problem when a
> Firewall Techie told me that he has seen this problem before and
> suggested that it is the mail server doing a reverse-IDENT and the
> Firewall is blocking it (both internally and externally) and the default
> timeout is about 30 SECONDS........sounds like to solution.
...
> And how do I stop it or change the timeout to be 1 second if possible?
You are correct in deducing that the 30 second delay is an ident
timeout.
The solution is to either open up Ident on the firewall or turn off the
ident lookup. If you're using tcpserver (ucspi), there are several options:
-r (Default.) Attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from
the remote host.
-R Do not attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the
remote host.
-ttimeout
Give up on the TCPREMOTEINFO connection attempt
after timeout seconds. Default: 26.
If you're not using tcpserver, check the manual for whatever you're
using (inetd?).
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gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
