Re: Port 113 requests?

From: Mike Meredith (mike.meredithat_private)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 00:54:36 PST

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    On Thursday 06 December 2001 20:51, you wrote:
    > you really should try and specify that the rule "drops" instead of
    > reject so that the potential intruder is not provided with any
    > information about their attempted connection.
    
    Won't that cause mail servers that check identd to accept mail very 
    slowly ?
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    mike.meredithat_private                http://www.iso.port.ac.uk/~mike
    Senior Informatics Officer (Postmaster, Hostmaster, and security)
    
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