On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:59, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > Port 113 is suppose to be used for ident services. RFC 1413 provides > > the details. This should not be a problem, however your router should > > stealth this port as well. Have seen this before. Depends on the > > router implementation. Not sure why they don't stealth that port as > > well as all the others. > > I can answer that. A *lot* of mail servers attempt to make an ident > request when you connect to send mail. If the port is stealthed, it can > cause the mail server to wait a very long time while the ident connection > attempt times out before continuing with the SMTP exchange. So many > firewalls leave port 113 unstealthed to keep that from happening. It is > stupid - but it is what you have to do work around brain-damaged SMTP > servers. It is worth noting that HTTP servers used to do the same stupid > thing - but everyone disabled it on the servers because it made web > browsing incredibly slow for a lot of people. Thanks, that is good to know! :) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Hodie natus est radici frater.
