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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

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