On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:42:52 -0800,
Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having a problem with some sendmail programs refusing to acknowledge me
>if I have my firewall's 113 (auth) port set to REJECT.
There are broken TCP stacks out there which treat ICMP port unreachable
(firewall reject) as ICMP host unreachable. Instead of dropping just
the ident session, they drop all sessions to your host. Best to let
ident through the firewall and just not run the daemon.
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