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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:12:59 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some fixes for some non-features of the /etc/rc.firewall script 
Message-ID:  <6801.941235179@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:07:59 MDT." <199910292207.QAA06921@mt.sri.com> 

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In message <199910292207.QAA06921@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:

>> >Or you can simply ignore them completely w/out logging them, since AUTH
>> >is a useless protocol, and you really shouldn't have a real AUTH daemon
>> >running on your box in any case.
>> 
>> On this topic also consider the "dummy" AUTH server in inetd...
>
>Someone (you?) posted one to the mailing list, and/or modified inetd to
>use a dummy one.  I'd have to go look in the archives.

It's in there now, vastly improved over my initial submission.

>However, I haven't had an auth server running on my box for over 3
>years, and it hasn't appeared to have hurt anything. :)
>
>I can wait the extra 2-3 seconds for the auth server to timeout to get
>my email. :)

It can be a problem for a busy mail server (guess why I did it :-)

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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