[lug] open port

[John Karns]

I have run into a similar situation in the past, although I wasn't running
any firewall, so the port wasn't blocked.  Specifically, when attempting
to circumvent using the ISP smtp server as a relay due to reliability
issues (lost mail, server being down a lot - an MS system, of course) I
was encountering a problem where attempting to send mail to hotmail.com
addresses and a few others was failing due to the failure of the hotmail
server system to "authenticate" me via identd.  Although I have since
switched my local ISP and service seems more reliable (however, there are
still many times when I their router or smtp server makes life annoying),
I would still like to figure out why my system won't respond to ident
requests.

My boot log showed that in.identd was starting, and /etc/hosts.allow was
set to pass the requests with "ALL : in.identd"

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Jeff said:

> HI folks,
> Quick questions here.  I run a (very) small mail server out of my
> house.  When I send mail to most every body, within seconds, I get hits
> on port 113 on my machine; port 113, according to /etc/services, is
> Authentication Service.  Right now, my firewall rules, say just to deny