I would be interested to hear folks opinions about services trying to auth with a client. I am especially interested in smtp, imap & pop3.
I notice with sendmail that it only tries twice and then gives up, but the imap server that comes with RH (UW ??) keeps trying for 30 seconds before giving up and allowing the connection to happen. My opinion is that it is a bad thing for mail servers to try to auth as many clients that are trying to connect are behind NAT firewalls, and the server ends up trying to auth with the firewall (I assume iptables is not _that_ stateful about auth as it is about ftp_data), and not the client. At this stage I am basically rejecting auth attempts to speed the server response up, but I wish I could find a way to stop the servers from attempting to auth in the first place. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "Flatter government, not fatter government." - me Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
