Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:55:54 -0700 (MST) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> To: Ben WIlliams <williamsl@Home.Com> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[4]: divert rules Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912082348200.74463-100000@rapidnet.com> In-Reply-To: <949.991209@Home.Com>
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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote: > > Thank you for that little bit of information. What does sendmail do > with ident replies? "bad.ip.address" is being used for a mailserver by > a different person on the internal LAN and I've never seen their mail > client complain when connecting to that server. I believe it is used by sendmail to determine the remote identity of the connecting server. Yes, sendmail will work even with it turned off. At one time sendmail did say that it sped up connection times when running ident on older versions. How it is implemented in 8.9.3...I don't know. I ident timeout value in sendmail 8.9.3 (default) is set to 30 seconds: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/tweakingoptions.html ******************************************************** Nick Rogness File not found... System Administrator Should I fake it (Y/N)? RapidNet, INC ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the messagehelp
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