On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:28:25 -0600, "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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. > >>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. > > >-- >Rodolfo J. Paiz >rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.simpaticus.com The ident thing has definitely speeded things up, but I'm going to play with dovecot on Friday.
