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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:33:12 +1000
From:      Enno Davids <nconedd@webjump.national.com.au>
To:        Corey Ralph <corey.ralph@datafast.net.au>
Cc:        Fabrizio Ravazzini <freefabri@yahoo.it>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMTP very very slow!
Message-ID:  <20010810113312.G1649@webjump.national.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010810103918.A7971@corey.datafast.net.au>; from corey.ralph@datafast.net.au on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:39:18AM %2B1000
References:  <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> <20010810103918.A7971@corey.datafast.net.au>

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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:39:18AM +1000, Corey Ralph wrote:
> Alternately, make sure that you aren't blocking the ident lookup with a
> firewall.  It is 113/udp.

Another alternative is to block ident with a return-rst in ipf so that the
client attempting to use it doesn't have to perform a timeout waiting for an
answer to a dropped packet. This way it gets an immediate connection reset
and continues on.


Enno.




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