From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 9 18:33:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from peppermint.national.com.au (peppermint.national.com.au [203.57.240.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C610637B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nconedd@webjump.national.com.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by peppermint.national.com.au (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id LAA25625; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:33:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from UNKNOWN(164.53.27.38), claiming to be "webjump.national.com.au" via SMTP by peppermint, id smtpdAAAysaOaY; Fri Aug 10 11:33:04 2001 Received: (from nconedd@localhost) by webjump.national.com.au (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id f7A1XCZ03166; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:33:12 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:33:12 +1000 From: Enno Davids To: Corey Ralph Cc: Fabrizio Ravazzini , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP very very slow! Message-ID: <20010810113312.G1649@webjump.national.com.au> References: <20010809120615.73455.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> <20010810103918.A7971@corey.datafast.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010810103918.A7971@corey.datafast.net.au>; from corey.ralph@datafast.net.au on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:39:18AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message