On Wednesday, Dec 24th 2003 at 10:40 -0500, quoth Christopher K. Johnson: =>Steven W. Orr wrote: => =>>On Wednesday, Dec 24th 2003 at 09:21 -0600, quoth Steven Stern: =>> =>>=>I'm popping mail from my FC1 server using the IPOP3 daemon that was already =>>=>there. Dang, but it is slow. It takes a long time to just to pick up one =>>=>short message, mainly due (I think) to process start time. It gets created =>>=>and stopped with each POP session. Does anyone have a suggestion for a better =>>=>POP3 daemon? =>>=> =>>=> -- Steve =>> =>>Ummm, I have a suggestion. I had the same problem. No it's nothing to do =>>with long process start time. Make sure your identd is running: =>> =>>chkconfig --list identd # To see if it starts at boot. =>>chkconfig identd on # to make sure it does =>>service identd start # to actually start it now =>> =>>Let me know if that doesn't fix it. =>> =>> =>> =>Better yet, add this to your iptables file in the *filter (filter table) =>section: => =># make quicker connections to servers that try ident lookup =>-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 113 -i eth+ -j REJECT Since I don't actually know what identd does, this looks like a good opportunity to find out why you're suggest that the protocol be rejected. Is it a Bad Thing? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
