On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What means this service: "Ident" that runs at port 113 ?? I setup FW-1 to
> drop this kind of service and I've been looking to the log and observed
> that my SMTP Server tried to do connections using this service frequently.
This is 'auth'.. I've seen this behaviour a lot with Sendmail.
Sendmail also hung until it timed out waiting for a response, so the
solution we came across was to 'reject' it rather than 'drop' it. Sendmail
then ran like a startled cat.
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