Thanks all. Now I have yet another trick in the big firewall bag.
John
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Mullen, Patrick wrote:
>-> Our experience with port 113, the AUTH port, is that peak
>-> performance is
>-> maintained with it allowed through the firewall. This does
>-> not mean the
>-> AUTH service has to be running.
>-
>-A better solution would be for your firewall to
>-RESET, rather than DROP the connection. This way
>-the remote server tears down it's query, rather than
>-waiting for a timeout.
>-
>-
>-~Patrick
>-
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