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Doug Crompton wrote:
| What is the consensus on port 113/ident and having it running/open? I see
| on a goggle search there are many opinions on it. I have it blocked at my
| FW but it is running (by default) on my Linux server. I so far see no
| adverse effects. It mostly seems to be associated with SMTP but not used
| much anymore and never required. It also seems that some services like
| IRC? use it. I see occasional hits in the log usually with SMTP transfers.
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| Doug
I would block everything except what you want to allow through. For
instance, if you are not running a mail server, there is no reason to
allow incoming port 25 messages.
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