Re: 10 seconds

"Juergen Nieveler" <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:Xns973B6F24F9617juergennieveler@nieveler.org...
> lee walters <pepplewickTAKEAWAY@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just installed a Netgear router with its own firewall (on XP) and,
>> oddly, when I check e-mail I get 10 second delay before the mail goes.
>
> Could be that the mail server is trying to contact your machine with
> IDENT. Try forwarding port 113/TCP to your machine or rejecting it
> instead of silently dropping it - if that solves your problem, you've
> found the downside of "Stealthing".

Or an idiot e-mail provider that still uses IDENT which is a fallible and
corruptible protocol.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:05 2006