Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:51:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>, Ronan Lucio <ronan@melim.com.br>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port 113 Message-ID: <3AB244A5.315DFD16@softweyr.com> 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 wrote:
>
> > > > Could anybody say me when I need to allow the port 113
> > > > in the firewall?
> > >
> > > *Need* form auth is a strong word. However, it does tend to speed up
> > > email transfers is you enable a version that always responds true.
> > >
> > > So, any external SMTP servers you have *should* have this port enabled.
> > >
> > > > What services use this port?
> > >
> > > I know that SMTP uses it, and I believe that ftpd uses it, and I believe
> > > irc also uses it.
> >
> > smtp does not need to use it - you can achieve the same speedy transfers
> > by telling your smtp server not to bother. e.g. for sendmail:
> >
> > O Timeout.ident=0s
>
> 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.
>
> I certainly don't use ident for local email. :)
To quote a relatively unknown identd server, "Fools trust ident!"
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