On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > > -- documentation note: it took me a while to figure out why there
> > > was a huge delay when trying to send email (blocked ident lookups)
> > > and a while longer to figure out how to turn it off
> > > (rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s). Suggest this be more prominent.
> >
> > Blame this on the broken winsock. If it didn't do the wrong thing with
> > identd connects there wouldn't be a problem. The default of 60s might be
> > a bit much though, as Eudora also has a 60 second timeout.
>
> Those of us that use only Unix boxes just don't see this kind of
> problem. I'm not sure where I got the 60s timeout from, but I'm loath to
> change it as this stage.
Actually this was indeed only on unix boxes. There's a packet
filter in between my workstation and the mail server, and none of
the attempted ident lookups actually get to my machine -- so they
time out, but meanwhile, the program attempting to send email is
twiddling its thumbs for sixty seconds.
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