----- Original Message ----- From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Courier-Users (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:01 PM Subject: [courier-users] Connection to port 113
> I appreciate the quick response to my last question. Now I've got another > one. > > Why is my mailserver trying to open a connection back to port 113 whenever I > make an SMTP connection? I am not using any authentication. This is > causing the SMTP connection to take about 30 seconds since my firewall is > denying the connection to 113. Is there a setting that I may have turned on > by accident? > > Thanks, > Bowie do a 'cat /etc/services | grep 113' You will see that port 113 is an identd lookup. The system is pausing for 30 seconds trying to do this lookup. I thought reverse-dns lookups were done on port 53, but I could be wrong. Well, it's a starting place. -Richard ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
