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> 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?
I wouldnt run it, but I have seen some src posted in some usenet groups
that make a fake ident that lets you have a similiar ident daemon, but
doesn't reveal any information.
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