ipop3d

[Dan Doucette]

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> karlp at ourldsfamily.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:30 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: ipop3d
> 
> On Wed, March 8, 2006 2:32 pm, Dan Doucette said:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Been a while, enjoy this list very much!
> >
> > Using RH9
> >
> > I'm having an issue with authentication via ipop3d, seems to take 
> > about 30-60 seconds for the user to authenticate and get 
> mail. I found 
> > a few messages in the RH archive about the passwd file and users at 
> > the bottom taking longer to authenticate versus users at 
> the beginning 
> > of the file taking less, this is true in my situation. The 
> passwd file 
> > is 228 lines which I'm assuming is not as large as some 
> others. With 
> > myself being at the top apparently I have not noticed. As 
> an example a 
> > user who was just added and shows up at the bottom of this file is 
> > taking well over 30 seconds to authenticate. With that said 
> does anyone have any ideas or solutions?
> 
> No real ideas, other than how about moving your ID to the 
> bottom of the list and then running a timed test... It would 
> at least verify what you are suspecting.
> 
> Karl

Thanks for your reply Karl. After a bit more research I discovered the
problem is with ident sending back to port 113, the client machine in
question had the default windows firewall turn on. I added an exception for
port 113 and holey smokes that was it, lighting quick now. Hope this might
help somebody else out. I noticed some others removed:

log_on_success          += USERID
log_on_failure          += USERID

I have not tried that yet. Anyone know if this will stop ident from
communicating back with the client?

TIA,
Dano

> 
> >
> > I have investigated DNS and confirmed reverse lookups and things on 
> > that nature, all of which appear to functioning properly.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Dan
> >
> >
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