Question on outbound port 113

[Peter Bonivart]

Jason Williams wrote:
> I noticed today that I have seen some outbound connections from my
> mailscanner box on our DMZ, going out through port 113. I know that port
> 113 is the auth or ident port, but I am trying to figure out why I am
> seeing these connections going outbound.

Is this really new or haven't you noticed before? Try this in the
mc-file for Sendmail:

define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl

It will disable the ident checks.

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/Peter Bonivart

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