It seems turning off rfc1413 fixed at least one complaint. I vote to
have it off by default. It really isn't all that useful anyway.
> I turned off RFC1413 ident authentication. Please try this again and
> let me know what happens (try ro.ctd.comsat.com).
>
> If this fixes the problem, also I wonder what type of OS are you
> calling from? Are you behind a firewall?
This seems to have fixed the problem.
I was testing from Sun unix, and, yes, we are behind a firewall.
Alan