From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 5 3:45:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f273.hotmail.com [207.82.251.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8809514C4B for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 03:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madrapour@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 71257 invoked by uid 0); 5 Jul 1999 10:45:25 -0000 Message-ID: <19990705104525.71256.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 195.96.144.201 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 05 Jul 1999 03:45:24 PDT X-Originating-IP: [195.96.144.201] From: N.N.M To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: IDENTD Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 03:45:24 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everybody, I'm not sure if this subject was discussed list before or not. If so, sorry for inconvenience. (-: The question is related to "identd". Is it necessary for Mailing System to work properly or not? And if not, can I block its port (113) on the firewall without causing any problem for the services? I read somewhere that it's better to block "identd connections" by "reset action in IPFW" instead of "deny" or something like that. Blocking the port with using "deny action" makes the services like "sendmail" or "ircd" very slow. thanks, Nazila M. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message