Re: [Exim] identd timeouts - exim 3.33

On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 08:09 AM, Peter Radcliffe wrote:

> Paul Wilson <prw@???> probably said:
>> It seems the huge majority of ISPs out there filter port 113/identd.
>> Because of this, exim hangs for 30 seconds on a new inbound connection
>> because of the 30 second timeout (rfc1413_query_timeout,
>> globals.c/globals.h). I fixed this in my own copy by adding a
>> identd_timeout var set to 1 second to globals.c/globals.h and applied
>> the below diff to verify.c. My questions are: firstly, will this ever
>> be
>> a config option instead of requiring the rfc 1413 timeout value?
>
> I'm really at a loss to understand why you've done this. All you're
> doing is changing the name of an option. This _is_ already a
> config option.
>
> Why can't you just set "rfc1413_query_timeout" to less than 30
> seconds, like everyone else who needs to ?

Well, to be honest, I apparently didn't RTFM thoroughly enough. RFC
1413/identd didn't click when I was reading the spec nor when I was
looking at the source. I guess I was in too much of a hurry to get exim
up and running. One of my machines had been rooted (buggy sshd) and
getting mail back up was a huge priority for me. No excuse, I know. Ah
well.

Paul