I just upgraded our gateway email system to sendmail 8.6.4 and encountered
a 30 second delay in making connections to the system. This appears to be
caused by it waiting 30 secondes for an IDENT response from the connecting
system. The IDENT query fails because our mail server is set between two
packet filters which are killing the IDENT packets. This also explains the
slow connectivity I have seen connecting to some other sites. I would like
to open up the IDENT port (113/tcp) for use to our mail gateway to speed up
throughput. Any problems with this? Any holes in IDENT on SunOS 4.1.3? What
sort of information does it expose?
Al
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