Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:36:16 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port 113 Message-ID: <15025.10176.676792.32675@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <3AB1261F.23B8BE75@algroup.co.uk> References: <006b01c0ad38$39eed0a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <099801c0ad7c$75b63800$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> <15025.5630.472269.543769@nomad.yogotech.com> <3AB1261F.23B8BE75@algroup.co.uk>
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> > > Could anybody say me when I need to allow the port 113 > > > in the firewall? > > > > *Need* form auth is a strong word. However, it does tend to speed up > > email transfers is you enable a version that always responds true. > > > > So, any external SMTP servers you have *should* have this port enabled. > > > > > What services use this port? > > > > I know that SMTP uses it, and I believe that ftpd uses it, and I believe > > irc also uses it. > > smtp does not need to use it - you can achieve the same speedy transfers > by telling your smtp server not to bother. e.g. for sendmail: > > O Timeout.ident=0s My local sendmail doesn't use *my* ident server, but remote sendmail servers use *my* ident server, so using ident locally speeds up mail transfers *to* my host. I certainly don't use ident for local email. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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