Hi Simon, Once upon a time Simon Law spoketh thus: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > > > Hi to all, > > > > I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution > > and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... > > I'd put even money on this being a reverse DNS problem. > > You see, exim and telnetd will both use tcpwrappers to do > reverse DNS checking. To see if this is happening, look in > /etc/hosts.deny on 10.1.1.1 for a line that says "ALL: PARANOID". (This > is a Debian default, and has been flamefested a while ago. Check the > archives if you want pros vs. cons.) > > To see if this is why things are slow, try commenting that line > out on 10.1.1.1. If this fixes things, you can two choices.
Well, it was there, but commenting it out didn't change anything. Thanks for the idea Ingo
