[imp] delay in IMP after a firewall

[Rich Lafferty]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:17:57AM +0100, Eric Delattre (edelattre@atac.fr) wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Is IMP using another port or protocol ??????
> > 
> > Of cource not. Sounds to me like your server is trying to perform some
> > kind of reverse lookup which times out eventually.
> 
> but why when I don't have the rule, I have no problem ???

Er, because then it's performing a reverse lookup that succeeds,
rather than timing out? Look at your firewall logs to see what the
blocked traffic *is*.

  -Rich

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