On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 13:40 +1100, Nix wrote:
At 03:55 AM 17/03/2001, you wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to stop popper from doing ident and reverse dns lookups everytime someone connects?
If you are running it from inetd, keep in mind that SuSE's tcpd build has -DALWAYS_RFC931 set.
grrr... Yes I am.. is there any way to disable this behavior without recompiling? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Since you don't want to turn this behaviour off and still want to run inetd: Wrap your POP server in something which isn't inetd. :) See http://cr.yp.to/ for the ucspi-tcp package, unless you cannot cope with DJB's software or opinions / license ...
(I WAS using xinetd until I hit a number of annoying bugs...
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