On Thu, 29 May 2003 19:29:52 +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: >moseley posts: > >>> it's not good to just drop the auth (ident) requests -- IIRC it >>> makes mail clients delay. >>> >>> the question is how should they be rejected? > >I dunno why you say that a drop makes the client delay. Maybe you >should ULDROP it and log the ident/whatever request on a port using >ulogd.
Dropping the request in fact DOES make the client wait until it gets a timeout. One should REJECT the request instead, probably using "port unreachable." -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
