In message <xfmail.990711131918....@polstra.com> John Polstra writes: : Really?? Even though their connect() call failed? Ick! I know : sendmail doesn't behave that way. I'll take your word about the IRC : daemons -- I don't know anything about them.
Yes. At least that's what I've observed. However, I believe the culprit was a firewall that just dropped the packets for the connection request, so it had to wait 30 seconds to timeout. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message