On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:41 +0100, Eilert Brinkmann wrote:
"Aaron K. Poffenberger"
wrote: On a related note (security), two questions: 1) Do I need to have the ident daemon on port 113 running? That port is currently open on the external interface on my firewall.
No. None of the usual services depends on the ident daemon.
Although there are some services out there which don't rely on it but nevertheless direct a question towards the ident port -- sendmail comes to mind. Make sure not just to DENY this service but to REJECT it when setting up a firewall. This will speed up the decision that there won't be an answer :> And once your ruleset is complete you won't want to log these packets, they usually show up whenever you run your mail queue to your uplink. virtually yours - Gerhard Sittig -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.