Re: [exim] RFC1413 (ident), TCP Reset & Alarm

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Author: Sander Smeenk
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] RFC1413 (ident), TCP Reset & Alarm
Quoting Dave Evans (davide-20070112@???):

> > Why is it that Exim4 (4.60) still waits for an alarm() to occur when a
> > connection to ident has been rejected with a RST? At least, that is what
> > seems to happen.
> Are you sure your box is receiving, and not firewalling out, the RST packet?


Most certain. A telnet to it's ident port results in an imediate
'Connection refused' error.

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I have an iptables -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset rule. Without it it
matches the DROP policy and even telnet stalls for a moment. :)

-Sndr.
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