> also for sendmail users, note that by default sendmail is set up > to do an identd check on incoming connections. this really slows > things down when its always waiting for timeouts on sites which > dont run an identd server. Don't they get a simple `connection refused' ? I'd only expect a timeout on machines that are down. > there is a config option (forget exactly what at the moment) to > disable this silly overhead. % grep -i ident /etc/sendmail/config.m4 define(`confTO_IDENT', 0s)