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On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:18:13PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> One is that they are connecting back on auth, looking for the
> ident service, when you first make a connection to them. If they can't
> connect to ident because you are behind a firewall, or aren't running
> auth, and they don't get a RST or some sort of ICMP unreachable back (maybe
> because you are behind a firewall that doesn't send them) they seem to have
> a ridiculous timeout before giving up on auth. It's like 5 or 10 minutes
> long!
If I was in BOfH mode, I could argue that your firewall needs fixing. But
I'd never say anything controversial like that ;-) (Especially as I've not
checked the RFCs to see if this behaviour is really broken or not)
--
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them."
-- Larry Wall
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