Luiz Eduardo Iadocicco wrote:
>
> Excuse me but somebody knows about the consequences of turning off this port ( port
>113 ). I have a filter that not leaving this port to pass and I don�t get notice the
>consequences .
>
> thank you
>
> Luiz Eduardo
>
That's the third time I see a question about that port. It's not really
obvious what ident (that's on port 113) does. If I disable it (rfs), my
logs tell me: "Unable to get canonical name of client, err=2". If I drop
the packets, the wait is a little longer, but the message seems to be
the same. If I turn it on (accpt), and clients connect, say on port 110
(pop3) without the ident-service, I get the same errormsg.
So it's not really obvious to me what ident is good for. To me it's good
for nothing, but of course, I could be wrong.
Rogier
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