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IDENT Proxy

Do I need to enable this IDENT proxy? I have just the Mail security receiving incoming mail and forwarding to mail server and SSL and L2TP/IPsec VPN services facing the internet along with a windows Home server 2008 port forwarded with default port 80, 443, and 4125. I get a lot of false reports from security scans pointing to this port and if it not needed for anything then I will turn it off.

When would I need to turn this on?

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

only for really old programs that require ident to operate. Even irc doesn't require this anymore..i would turn it off. if you don't know you need it..you don't.
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0 MarkMurphy over 13 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply William. I will disable it.
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0 BarryG over 13 years ago

I've found that sendmail mailservers work faster if you create a PacketFilter to REJECT all outbound ident traffic (from your mailserver).
If you just DROP it, then sendmail will keep trying until a timeout is reached, and it does this for every incoming email.

Barry
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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

actually it depends on how they are configured. I one of them running and i actively block ident both ways and sendmail has not issues..maybe older sendmail needs ident..[:)]
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0 MarkMurphy over 13 years ago

I have my firewall getting all inbound mail for my domain then filtering it then it forwards it to my cloud service office365 servers. I don't have any mail servers behind the firewall so I think I am good correct?
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