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 -- xavier -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
