On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 06:36:55AM +1000, proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > > It's probably the identd lookups (there's an option to turn them > > off). > > I'm lost as to why this defaults to on since: > > - they are trivially faked IF the sysadmin configures the identd daemon to work that way. > - most news clients are windows/macs and generally won't support > this Most? Maybe at your place of work. And there are ident daemons for win/mac anyway... but who uses them? :-) > - many unicies turn this off anyhow Then they can turn off the lookup. Myself, I would tend to look for the DNS timeouts as the problem, as it's notorious for misbehaviour. Identd, OTOH, will usually come right back if the remote client isn't running, unless the ICMP port unreachable doesn't get through. If they're on the same network, this won't be a problem. M. -- Michael ``M.'' Brown Computer Science, University of Waterloo SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
