On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:45:53PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 18:16, David Talkington wrote: > > Michael George wrote: > > > > >We just started a lease on our own server on Rackspace.com for doing our web > > >and mail serving. However, whenever we fetch mail from the office, we have > > >about a 20-30s delay before the transfer starts. > > > > Drop all traffic to port 113 on the floor (to avoid annoying ident > > timeouts) > > "Dropping" all traffic (via the DROP rule, as opposed to REJECT) is what > causes ident timeouts. To avoid them, the REJECT rule is proper.
If I forward port 113 from my Linksys to a server which doesn't run the ident service, will that generate a REJECT? Or do I need to create an IPCHAINS rule to specifically do it? Right now, we use the Linksys as our firewall, so we don't have firewall rules on the server. Plus, some of the machines I want to "fix" aren't running unix (Mac OS9). > Since UW-IMAP appears to configure reverse lookups (of any type) at > build time, Michael might want to consider a more flexible (and secure) > mail system, like Courier (I'm starting to say that a lot...) > http://www.courier-mta.org/ Checking it out now... -- In light of the terrorist attack on the U.S.: They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
