[Fedora] Re: iptables: drop or reject?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 09:30 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> One of the first things that I always shut off, since the days of 
> RH5, was the ident daemon and later on the port itself.  I don't care
> to use it, I've never had problems not running it and I don't see any 
> reason why I should either.  I don't think this would be a problem 
> either, but then maybe you'll prove me wrong. 

I recall reading about people having problems with their own ISPs if
they ignored it (e.g. getting their mail), and it can certainly cause
problems with logging onto some IRC services.

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