Don't you have any dns problem? I don't know about these two daemons but I used to have problems with my sshd trying to resolve the reverse mapping for the incoming request and if the reverse mapping were not available there was a long delay... Ramin On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:39:40PM -0400, root wrote: > Thanks for the hint. > I added entries REJECT-ed the incoming and outgoing connections via tcp/udp on > 113 port (identd) but unfortunatly that doesnt felps. > > -- In the case with the SMTP I am duing telnet on port 25 and the machine is > responding immediately with: > Trying xx.xx.xx.xx... > Connected to xx.xx.xx.xx (xx.xx.xx.xx). > Escape character is '^]'. > > but the actual response from the mail server: "220 mail.mydomain.com ESMTP" > apears in around 1--15 seconds > > -- In the case with the FTP i get the login prompt in around 10s after I > initiated the connection. > > Thanks for any help > Cheers > vlady > > > >On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:42, Andrew Greenburg (Intelenet) wrote: > > This is probably an identd issue. If you create a rule to REJECT identd > > packets instead of dropping them, this should help. >
