From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 11 13:19:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1B414D38 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09167; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA32389; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3788F4D2.17CBD8C7@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Doug Subject: Re: a BSD identd Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote: > John Polstra wrote: >> >> Are you sure? If you simply don't run an identd, the queries will >> get an instant connection refused error. That's even faster than >> sending back a bogus response. > > Many daemons that request ident, and almost all IRC daemons > that I'm aware of don't take "NO" for an answer. They sit waiting > for a valid response, and timeout after X seconds, where X is c. 30 > seconds. Really?? Even though their connect() call failed? Ick! I know sendmail doesn't behave that way. I'll take your word about the IRC daemons -- I don't know anything about them. > Whether this behavior is good or not begs the question, Agreed. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message