Sendmail Five Second Greeting Delay

[Lowell Gilbert]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> Ident queries like this will cause a delay if the other side doesn't
> respond respond to the ident query.  That's typical behaviour for most
> machines that run firewalls nowadays.  Given that ident is broken as
> designed (see rant in other post) turning it off is a good idea in my book.

I consider it polite for firewalls to actively refuse to open the
connection (TCP reset) rather than just dropping the request, though.
There's really no downside to doing so.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/