Re: Port 113 requests?

[Paul Gear <paulgear () bigfoot com>]

"Slighter, Tim" 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.

Make sure to change the sendmail configuration to disable ident lookups before
trying this.  If you do it with a default sendmail configuration (at least on
Red Hat Linux), you will get a 30 second timeout whenever you try to send
anyone mail (and presumably when you receive mail, if you use drop on outgoing
connections - not that you would :-).

Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net



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