On Mon, Oct 27/97, Paul Phillips <paulp@???> wrote:
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> 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.
Then your packet filter is doing the wrong thing. It shouldn't leave
unwanted connections hanging, it should refuse them.
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