Date: 15 Mar 2001 23:09:16 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>, Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port 113 Message-ID: <xzpbsr2ptv7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:36:16 -0700 (MST)" 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> <15025.10176.676792.32675@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes: > 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. No, the problem only arises if you drop TCP 113 SYNs to the floor instead of rejecting them (ipfw deny instead of ipfw reset); the server times out waiting for you to reply. If you send an RST or an ICMP UNREACH back, it'll give up immediately. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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