On Monday, Feb 13th 2006 at 11:30 -0600, quoth Mike Klinke: =>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? Yes. I am running sendmail. I don't *know* that dovecot is a problem. It's just something I recently added. Should my sendmail server be acting as an ident server? Or should sendmail be the src of these packets? -- 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
