Better POP daemon?
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Sun Dec 28 01:19:40 UTC 2003
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:58:52PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 09:26 12/24/2003, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday, Dec 24th 2003 at 09:21 -0600, quoth Steven Stern:
> >
> >=>I'm popping mail from my FC1 server using the IPOP3 daemon that was
> >already
> >=>there. Dang, but it is slow. It takes a long time to just to pick up one
> >=>short message, mainly due (I think) to process start time. It gets
> >created
> >=>and stopped with each POP session. Does anyone have a suggestion for a
> >better
> >=>POP3 daemon?
> >=>
> >=> -- Steve
> >
> >Ummm, I have a suggestion. I had the same problem. No it's nothing to do
> >with long process start time. Make sure your identd is running:
>
> No, better yet: make sure that your firewall REJECTS requests to ident
> (port tcp/113). Do not DROP them silently, but REJECT them so that the
> client gets an answer quickly. What is happening now is that your mail
> client is making an ident request, and waiting for an answer until it times
> out; REJECTing ident requests will provide an immediate answer (even if
> that answer is "no comment") and will make your long wait disappear.
>
> Ident provides the name of the user running or requesting the service, and
> it's giving out information that you do not necessarily want to give. It
> was a "friendly" feature back when the Internet was friendlier... now it's
> a small security risk and provides no real benefit. Just say no.
I still hit some IRC servers that refuse to log you on if port 113 is
not open. A pain in the butt.
--
Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca
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