timeouts from one machine and not another

[Aristedes Maniatis]

Many SMPT servers do a reverse DNS lookup on the host which is 
connecting in order to apply spam filtering rules, HOST checking, etc. 
Do you have you reverse DNS setup OK?

Ari Maniatis


On 07/07/2004, at 9:57 AM, David Bishop wrote:

> I get a lot of
> time-out errors on certain machines (it times out when checking smtp 
> and
> ftp) and on the other, I don't.  If I try it from the command-line 
> (just
> telnetting to the ports), it hangs for a long time (long being greater
> than 10 seconds) but finally connects.



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