Can your mail server resolve those PTR addresses? Does it have connectivity to a DNS server?

-----Original Message-----
From: Devon Harding - GTHLA [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FW-1] SMTP connection

It literally takes like 5mins. To get a connection prompt via 'telnet
193.194.138.75 25'

have a look at PTR records from the machine you are connecting from as some
mail servers also want to be able to do a reverse lookup.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Devon Harding - GTHLA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [FW-1] SMTP connection

> I already have this rule (# 2). It's still timing out. What else can
cause
> this?
>
> -Devon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:57 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] SMTP connection
>
> > When I telnet to a SMTP server (193.194.138.75) from a machine behind my
> > FW-1 firewall, it connects, but the 220 response come up until I type
> > 'quit'. And sometimes it doesn't even connect.
> >
> > When I try to telnet from another server from a remote location I get a
> > response right away like this...
> >
> > [root@mars root]# telnet 193.194.138.75 25
> > Trying 193.194.138.75...
> > Connected to 193.194.138.75.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 SIRIUS.unicc.org ESMTP MTA at UNICC; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 20:28:04 +0200
> >
> > What's causing this?
> ident timeout failure. Does your firewall have a rule that says:
> any any ident REJECT ?
>
> If not, add it.
>
> -Don
>
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