----- 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



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