Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:05:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010031705.LAA23799@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031202070.33314-100000@achilles.silby.com> References: <200010031611.KAA23351@nomad.yogotech.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031202070.33314-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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> > > Isn't sendmail just as happy getting a RST back when it tries to > > > connect? > > > > Yep, but it slows mail transfers down quite a bit. > > > > > > Nate > > Does sendmail retry when it gets a connection refused back? Yep, but having to do a retry for every incoming connection can be quite a slowdown when you receive *LOTS* of email. Any FreeBSD user who has that on his box is slowing down delivery of email significantly, because the FreeBSD mailing lists tend to generate *lots* of email messages. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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