On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:55:41 -0400, Mike Smallwood wrote:

>Thanks for all your help! It seems that when I run qpopper in stand alone mode the 
>problem is cleared up. Though I'm curious as to why there were complications running 
>under xinetd. If xinetd was actually timing out on a reverse lookup, why does it not d
o it for ftp -which I also have starting under xinetd? Why can qpopper running in 
standalone mode (under otherwise similar conditions) log reverse lookups just fine?

My guess is ident lookup. Is the POP3 config for xinetd doing an ident
check but for FTP it's not? (This may be an interaction with
tcp_wrappers, which does the ident check.)

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