<-- Warning: charset 'X-UNKNOWN' is not supported -->
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Sascha E. Pollok wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> we are doing ident-queries within all SMTP-sessions
> that come in from remote networks. One of our
> customers is currently in trouble with a company
> that is trying to send email to him because
> the remote firewall-admin is discarding ident-queries.
> My questions, although it might be slightly OT here, are:
>
> a) Is there a common opinion whether ident is a good or
> a bad thing?
In these days of end-users on PC workstations directly connected to the
Net, it is less usefull than it used to be.
>
> b) Is it a good decision to discard ident-connections towards
> a SMTP-server instead of rejecting them? IMHO exim should
> give up with ident queries in case the connection is
> rejected or am I wrong here?
If the firewall is silently dropping them, it is misconfigured. It
should send an ICMP unreachable, or maybe even a connection refused.
This has been discussed previously on this list, you may wish to search
the archives.
>
> Of course I could except this single host from sending
> ident-queries but I'd like to get a general advice on this.
>
> tia,
> Sascha
>
> ---
> Sascha E. Pollok
> IPHH Internet Port Hamburg GmbH
> Technical Manager / Network Operations
> Grosse Reichenstrasse 27
> D-20457 Hamburg
> Germany
> Tel.?? +49 (0)40 37 49 19-0
> Fax??? +49 (0)40 37 49 19-29
> Email: sp@???
> ICQ #38955239
> You spamma my mailbox I nukea da ass
>
>
> --
> ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
>
--
