timeouts from one machine and not another

David Bishop tech at gnuconsulting.com
Wed Jul 7 05:33:23 CEST 2004


Sorry, I should have made it more clear.  I get this hang on all
connections that I make, whether it is smtp or ftp.  Interestingly
enough, I do *not* get the hang when using ssh, http, or domain.  
Could this be some sort of pam thing?  I don't know enough about 
pam to really say. The ftp daemon, exim, and sshd are all started as 
seperate services (not via inetd), so that startup isn't an issue.

I'm going to start looking at pam, see if that leads me anywhere.

*update* Doesn't happen with pop3 or imap, either.  So it's just ftp and
smtp.  

*update to my update*  Now it isn't happening with ftp either, just
smtp.  But reverse dns lookup is turned off, I swear it is...  And it
definetly was happening with ftp before.

- Very Confused

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:24:26AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 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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