Christi Alice Scarborough <christi.scarborough@???> probably said:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:39:20PM +0100, John Burnham wrote:
> > > I've noticed that exim seems to be taking about 10 seconds to set up a
> > > connection from a client here. I assume it's trying to do some sort
> > > of ident check. Since my mail server is behind a firewal, this is
> > > probably unnecesary. Am I right about this, and if so, is there a
> > > way to turn the behaviour off?
> > RFC1413_hosts and RFC1413_query_timeout
> Thanks, setting the query timeout to 0 had the desired effect.
A far better solution is to set up your firewall to return an ICMP
port unreachable for accesses to the ident port. Stops ident delays
for any protocol (and a fair few use them).
P.
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