I use Postfix MTA and I am getting long waits on other aservices like www. I will post the output. > Some time ago, I had a similar problem with slow responses (~30s delay). > It turned out that it was identd, as Grant assumed in your case too. > Adding a rule like > > iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 113 -j REJECT \ > --reject-with tcp-reset > > solved this for me. I don't know the Slackware distro, but it seems, > that they use sendmail. If this is true, it is quite likely that identd > causes the trouble (at least it was true for me on one box). > > Have a nice time, > > Joerg -- Michael Hallager networkStuff ltd www.networkstuff.co.nz | p.09.839.1000 | m.029.638.7883
