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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 18:16:12 +0100, David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk> said:
> 
> > gets no response (after a time-out) it would be entitled to retry a
> > few times in case of packet loss. *But* if it gets a RST, which is a
> 
> If net.inet.tcp.blackhole is set, an RST will not be emitted.
> 
> -GAWollman

If you're paranoid enough to block RST, you probably wouldn't leave auth
on anyway.

In either case, blocked RST wasn't the questioned case.  I'm still curious
what sendmail does on refused connections.  Does anyone know for sure?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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