Doug wrote:
> John Polstra wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure? If you simply don't run an identd, the queries will
>> get an instant connection refused error. That's even faster than
>> sending back a bogus response.
>
> Many daemons that request ident, and almost all IRC daemons
> that I'm aware of don't take "NO" for an answer. They sit waiting
> for a valid response, and timeout after X seconds, where X is c. 30
> seconds.
Really?? Even though their connect() call failed? Ick! I know
sendmail doesn't behave that way. I'll take your word about the IRC
daemons -- I don't know anything about them.
> Whether this behavior is good or not begs the question,
Agreed.
John
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