On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
: This isn't too bad for most environments, because of IDENT isn't
: running, the return comes back immediately. Ditto if it is running. But
: if you're in a firewall environment, nothing comes back, and so
: sendmail ends up freezing until it hits the timeout. and then continues
: on.
Ask the firewall admin if the firewall can be set-up to return RST instead
of "nothing". That response is equivalent to a "Connection refused".
IMHO, "mis-feature" or not, outbound IDENT should be allowed for logging
purposes.
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-- Todd Vierling (Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bus. [EMAIL PROTECTED])
