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Subject: Re: IDENT secure? - question satisfied
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger @ lehman . com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 11:05:10 -0500
To: alastair @ cadence . com (Alastair Young)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Nov 1993 16:36:07 PST." <199311160036 . QAA04729 @ mailgate . cadence . com>
Reply-to: pmetzger @ lehman . com

Repeating, I've experienced exactly the same problem, and IDENT was
not the thing causing the delays -- name resolution was the problem.

Perry

Alastair Young says:
> Thanks for the quick response guys. I am not running IDENT on my server so
> allowing the IDENT packets through to my mail gateway will not hurt me, and
> allowing them through will allow the mail gateway to respond with the
> "connection refused" thus avoiding the 30 second timeout I've been seeing
> on some mail. 
> 
> I don't plan to run IDENT, though I am leaving the IDENT queries on in my
> sendmail daemon.
> 
> Al
> 
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