I am noticing a load of blocked port 113 attempts in my FW log since we have started moving to Exch server. I read the stuff below and wonder if anyone else is doing this?
How port 113 can cause problems with your email One system that still regularly attempts to use Authd is sendmail, a very popular mail server. It will try to establish the userid of a user initiating a connection to send mail. While it not requires a successful reply to function, it will wait up to 5 minutes in its default configuration for a reply from Authd. Many firewalls are setup by default to not reply at all to connection attempts. This will make sendmail wait the specified timeout duration before accepting any mail. If you instead have the firewall reply with a 'connection rejected' message, the mail server will stop waiting and process your mail right away. So if you installed a firewall and have noticed that your email service has gotten sluggish, see if there is a correlation between your sending mail and your firewall logging accesses to port 113. If so, try opening up port 113 on your firewall so that the mail server will be happy. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
