Re: Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-08-01 Thread Joe
Nick Wright wrote: (1) rfc1413_hosts and rfc1413_query_timeout (for ident calls). Firewalls sometimes block ident connections so that they time out, instead of refusing them immediately. This can cause this problem. See Q5023 for a discussion of the usefulness of ident. For

Re: Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-08-01 Thread George Borisov
George Borisov wrote: > > Try sending a message through telnet from the problem machine. Sorry, ignore that, just read your original email again. Can you Telnet into other SMTP servers, other than your ISP? (Just checking your ISP isn't blocking outgoing port 25 to all but their servers.) --

Re: Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-08-01 Thread George Borisov
Nick Wright wrote: > > The troubling thing is that from this particular machine I can send to > other machines fine -- just not to my box. Try sending a message through telnet from the problem machine. (e.g. http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html) If this works, there might be some problem

Re: Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Wright
> > > > (1) rfc1413_hosts and rfc1413_query_timeout (for ident > > calls). Firewalls sometimes block ident connections so that they > > time out, instead of refusing them immediately. This can cause > > this problem. See Q5023 for a discussion of the usefulness of > > ident. >

Re: Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-08-01 Thread George Borisov
Nick Wright wrote: > > (1) rfc1413_hosts and rfc1413_query_timeout (for ident > calls). Firewalls sometimes block ident connections so that they > time out, instead of refusing them immediately. This can cause > this problem. See Q5023 for a discussion of the usefulness of > i