Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:19:18 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <XFMail.990711131918.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <3788F4D2.17CBD8C7@gorean.org>
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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
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