Thanks a lot for a clear explanation! Our firewall is actually on Cisco 1700 series router. Does anyone know if there is a way to tell Cisco router to deny it instead of dropping? This is actually a question to other group, understand, but maybe someone knows?
I also found that you may tell courier -noidentlookup and am going to try it too. -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Keating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:23 PM To: Vlad Soutyrine Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: courier esmtp slowness? On Tuesday 24 December 2002 17:41, Vlad Soutyrine uttered: > I do not remember seeing any mentioning in the documentation that > courier's smtp server requires 113 port as well. Did I miss something? > Where does this come from? What if client does not run identd? > Actually, I guess, none of my clients run it, but they work fine from > other, not firewalled, locations. > Could you refer me to a little more information to read about this? It's not so much them needing identd to work, it's more of stupid firewalls that drop identd instead of denying. Droping doesn't notify the other side that the connection won't happen, so the other side keeps trying and eventually times out. If the packets were denied, a denial message would be sent back, and the other side would quit trying to send such packets, and go on about it's business. Identd should always be denied instead of dropped. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
