From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 10: 5:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9288A37B66C; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28833; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:05:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23799; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:05:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:05:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010031705.LAA23799@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Nate Williams , Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: References: <200010031611.KAA23351@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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