Auth/system-auth & POP3 daemon

[Brian Chabot]

bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
>   AFAIK, identd doesn't initiate requests, it only responds to them.  I
> expect either xinetd or the POP3 server you're using is sending the identd
> request to the client system, not getting an answer, and timing out after 30
> seconds.  I know xinetd can be configured to do this (see xinetd.conf(5)  
> manpage).

Exactly. But... Why would it work fine over one interface but time out 
on the other?  xinetd is not bound to any specific interface.

I'm pretty sure I found the setting to disable auth, but that still 
doesn't solve the question of why eth0 times out while eth1 works fine.

Brian
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