RE: [FW1] Ident port 113.

[Patrick Baird <pbaird@FW1-NOSPAMpolarisconsulting.com>]

You can place a rule to reject ident, this will speed up most mail servers
as they wait x time to get a response, then send anyway.  Set it to reject,
not deny

We've had it this way for months and all mail still flows through.

PDB


-----Original Message-----
From: Jesus Calvo Hernandez [mailto:jesus.calvo@sema.es]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 6:39 AM
To: omar.pinheiro@telebahiacelular.com.br;
fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
Subject: Re: [FW1] Ident port 113.



Hi

Smtp servers try to check the identity of the server which is trying to send
mail to them previously to accept mail from it. It is normal and of you
forbid it  it might be possible, depending on the configuration of your mail
server, that you cannot receive any mail from any other mail server on the
world.

regards


----- Original Message -----
From: <omar.pinheiro@telebahiacelular.com.br>
To: <fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: [FW1] Ident port 113.


>
> What means this service: "Ident" that runs at port 113 ?? I setup FW-1 to
> drop this kind of service and I've been looking to the log and observed
> that my SMTP Server tried to do connections using this service frequently.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Omar Pinheiro
> Departamento de Sistemas
> Telebahia Celular
>
>
>
>
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