Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded
Daniel Tiefnig wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:36 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
>>
>>>Do you think I should change the default to 5s?
>>
>>Personally, yes. I don't think there are many sites for whom that is
>>both useful and they don't come back within 5 seconds.
>
>
> I'd vote to disable ident lookups by default if noone stands up shouting
> "ident lookups are great, don't turn them off!". Considering these DO
> cause problems for the unwary, (allthough 5sec wouldn't be as bad as
> 30sec are) one may argue people that want ident lookups should activate
> them deliberately.
>
>
> Just my thoughts,
> daniel
>
Second disabling ident lookups by default.
Short time-out of 5s second choice.
ident, or it's 'secure' variants awfully scarce these days, even
if not firewalled.
We experimented with providing it to be a 'cooperative citizen',
even if only between/among our own Exim MTA's.
Our logs showed that we got *many* would-be 'predators' banging
on the port, so shut it off.
