Sendmail slow?

[Knute Johnson]

Rashkae wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> The alarm is triggered after 5 seconds which is the delay you are
>> seeing.  So the AUTH protocol is the source of the delay.
>>> 16288 17:05:24 <... select resumed> )   = 0 (Timeout)
> 
> 
> good ol' Auth/Ident, gets them every time.  You should consider
> configuring firewalls to Reject Ident rather than drop to avoid this
> potential problem with other servers you communicate with over the net.
>  Unfortunately, doing so does mean you aren't stealthed anymore.
> 

Actually my router should be rejecting connections on port 113.  The XP 
firewall (where my mail client is running) accepts port 113 by default.

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Knute Johnson

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