On Monday 13 February 2006 11:19, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > My firewall allows outgoing auth packets. i.e., packets with > destination ports set to 113(auth). Also, My firewall does not > allow incoming packets with destination ports of 113(auth) > > It doesn't make any sense to me. I am the 207.172.210.41 and I > seem to be the src and the src port is 113 which makes no sense > at all. How is it possible for my server to be trying to connect > to a remote machine with src port 113? > > Does this make sense? > Do you have a mail server, or another server, behind this firewall that is trying to use ident ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt ) on the incoming client connections? Regards, Mike Klinke