Am 20.12.2023 um 15:58:48 Uhr schrieb Joe: > For many years my SMTP server has requested an ident (TCP port 113) > from outside sending servers. Since nobody now runs ident servers, > there will be no reply, and my server waits for a timeout of thirty > seconds before continuing.
Good admins don't use DROP in firewalls, so either you get a TCP RST (because no application listens on that port) or a ICMP administratively prohibited, so your server knows that no identd runs there and can continue.
