$author = "Matt Hyne" ; > > The reverse lookups are fine, but tcpdump reveils something interesting: > > It appears to be sending a request to the auth protocol of the external > machine - which it does 4 times before getting a response (the reason for > the 30s delay). The problem with this is that there is no guarantee than > an external machine does not block inbound access to the auth protocol > (with many stateful firewalls this is normally the case - only open a port > if there was an outbound connection first). > > Is there anyway to tell the pop daemon NOT to try to reconnect on the auth > port ?
have a look in /etc/xinet.d/pop3 or /etc/xinetd.conf (i can't remember which one) and comment out the line about USERID... hth marty -- "To err is human, to forgive is not my policy. --root" - sig file on slashdot -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
