Am Do, den 25.12.2003 schrieb Rodolfo J. Paiz um 01:28: > At 17:21 12/24/2003, you wrote: > >Changing just the daemon while not fixing the real resons why another > >one does not work as expected is not wise in my eyes. But in your other > >mailing you are right, that DROPing ident requests is a dumb thing. > > Steve asked two questions, as I read his post: what might be causing his > problems, and is there a better POP server daemon. I attempted to answer > both, independently of each other. You are right. Sorry, I did not want to offend you. > >Anyway, it's not the case in here that the identd make the problems. > >It's DNS lookups and maybe not resoving reverse lookups. It's a common > >issue with other net applications as ssh, telnet or ftp logins too. > > Steve's case may be either, both, or something else entirely. DNS (both > forward and reverse) timeouts and ident requests are, however, the two most > common causes of this kind of problem; as you noted. He now has enough input to find his way out of the issue. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
