Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:46:22 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Potential exim/minires VPN problem Message-ID: <20030926114622.GA2336@tishler.net> Mail-Followup-To: Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org, cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030912203945.GK1840@tishler.net> <3F623053.BBE14858@phumblet.no-ip.org> <20030912211127.GL1840@tishler.net> <3F623B16.79735AAF@phumblet.no-ip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F623B16.79735AAF@phumblet.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i This post is just for the archives and to close this thread... On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:31:02PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > > I didn't see any see any difference in exim's log file. Does the > > debugging output go to a different exim log file? > > Yes, it goes to std{err,out} of the service. That will be in > /var/log/exim.log (standard) but if you use exim-config to set the > service it goes to /var/log/exim/cygrunsrv_{err,out}.log > > The simplest however would be to call exim from the shell. I worked with Pierre to investigate this potential problem off-list -- mainly for privacy reasons. Our conclusion is the problem is caused by my company's networking setup and not by exim and/or minires. My company does not allow unrestricted outbound traffic -- everything goes through some kind of proxy. In particular, DNS requests go through SOCKS servers. [1] We feel the SOCKS servers are causing the DNS request timeouts. This causes minires and in turn exim to fail. Jason [1] IMO, these servers are overloaded and somewhat unreliable. -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/