Re: [exim] ident check

xavier wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:50:39AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote:
>> Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:01 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>>>> Why do you do do ident checks, anyway? I thought they were pointless these
>>>> days... I've had rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s set for ages now.
>>> they are not pointless if you want us to accurately handle complaints
>>> about abuse coming from our multi-user servers. a timeout of 5s should
>>> be plenty, though.
>>>
>> We've given up in ident checks, and do not run a daemon ourselves.
>>
>> The benefit you gain shows up how? And is it unique, or something that can be
>> adequately served by other means?
>
> this is also a good tool to weed out some spam.
> suppose the zombie machine drops identd, it will have to wait
> until it times out. not a lot of ratware wait that long (20 sec here).
>
>
> bye
>
>

... and if I drop an anvil on my foot, I'll forget I have a toothache?

Use a bespoke delay if/as/when appropriate. ELSE NOT.

No need to penalize *all* connections...

Bill