Bug 56279

Summary: xinetd.d conf files cause IDENT timeout
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mike McHenry <mmchenry>
Component: imapAssignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Mike McHenry 2001-11-14 21:54:15 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The xinetd.d config files for the imap package all include a line 
log_on_success and log_on_failure = USERID.

This line causes a 30 second timeout whenever a client which is not 
running an IDENTD daemon (any Windows machine) attempts to connect to a 
daemon (ipop2, ipop3, imap, imaps, pop3s)

In my opinion a 30 second delay should not be introduced when 90% of the 
people checking email will be running Windows clients and will thus not 
have an IDENTD daemon running.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply attempt to connect to port 110, 143, etc from a client which is 
not running an IDENTD daemon (eg Windows 9x)


Actual Results:  Server will hang for 30 seconds while IDENTD lookup times 
out...

Expected Results:  Server should immediately answer on these ports...

Additional info:
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-20 04:32:50 UTC 
If this problem is in fact the case, then I agree with you.  Will
investigate, and change default if I can reproduce the problem
easily, which I suspect shouldn't be hard.  Very odd nobody has
reported this before.  ;o(
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-20 10:13:31 UTC 
I have changed all of the xinetd config files to log as follows, and
removed all references to USERID:

        log_on_success  += HOST DURATION
        log_on_failure  += HOST
Will be in rawhide imap-2001a packages soon.
Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-01-23 13:47:47 UTC 
*** Bug 58283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Ian Mortimer 2002-03-05 05:15:51 UTC 
You don't need to add HOST to log_on_success or log_on_failure since that is
the default for xinetd anyway: set in /etc/xinetd.conf