Bug#343085: exim4: Exim SMTP_AUTH hangs since today...

Sat Dec 17 14:45:53 UTC 2005

severity #343085 important
merge #338319 #343085
retitle #343085 outgoing connection hangs after STARTTLS (entropy issue)
thanks

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:35:53PM +0100, Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> On my server the entropy ist only "168" could this be the cause of a GNUTLS problem?

Yes. exim will wait (and block) until there is enough entropy
available to initialize the TLS session. 

> See also ...
> 
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-12/msg00019.html
> 
> But my server is not virtual (at least I hope so).

This seems to be a general issue, either with later 2.6 kernels or
with GnuTLS.

Greetings
Marc

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