Better POP daemon?
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Dec 25 01:03:49 UTC 2003
Am Do, den 25.12.2003 schrieb Rodolfo J. Paiz um 01:28:
> At 17:21 12/24/2003, you wrote:
> >Changing just the daemon while not fixing the real resons why another
> >one does not work as expected is not wise in my eyes. But in your other
> >mailing you are right, that DROPing ident requests is a dumb thing.
>
> Steve asked two questions, as I read his post: what might be causing his
> problems, and is there a better POP server daemon. I attempted to answer
> both, independently of each other.
You are right. Sorry, I did not want to offend you.
> >Anyway, it's not the case in here that the identd make the problems.
> >It's DNS lookups and maybe not resoving reverse lookups. It's a common
> >issue with other net applications as ssh, telnet or ftp logins too.
>
> Steve's case may be either, both, or something else entirely. DNS (both
> forward and reverse) timeouts and ident requests are, however, the two most
> common causes of this kind of problem; as you noted.
He now has enough input to find his way out of the issue.
Alexander
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