Re: Port 113 requests?

[Mike Meredith <mike.meredith () port ac uk>]

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On Thursday 06 December 2001 20:51, you wrote:
> you really should try and specify that the rule "drops" instead of
> reject so that the potential intruder is not provided with any
> information about their attempted connection.

Won't that cause mail servers that check identd to accept mail very 
slowly ?
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mike.meredith () port ac uk                http://www.iso.port.ac.uk/~mike
Senior Informatics Officer (Postmaster, Hostmaster, and security)

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