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On 2002-05-22 at 12:31 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Are you connecting through a firewall
>
> gawd no! aside from my abhoring firewalls, did you actually
> look at the command?
>
> % telnet localhost 25
> ^^^^^^^^^
> > refuses ident requests
>
> bingo! thanks!!!
Uhm, that's strange. Are you sure that the host isn't doing any kind of
packet filtering?
I know full well that _you're_ familiar with the three-way handshake and
wouldn't presume to teach you to suck the rotten eggs of networking. ;^)
But in this case ... if there's no packet filtering then the RST should
come back and there would be no delay.
Delay 30s => default timeout reached => no IDENT, no RST, nada.
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