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 -- ## 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/
