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From: Michael Hallager <michael@networkstuff.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: IP Tables slows network response times
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:04:15 +1200
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I use Postfix MTA and I am getting long waits on other aservices like www.
I will post the output.

> Some time ago, I had a similar problem with slow responses (~30s delay).
> It turned out that it was identd, as Grant assumed in your case too.
> Adding a rule like
>
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 113 -j REJECT \
>          --reject-with tcp-reset
>
> solved this for me. I don't know the Slackware distro, but it seems,
> that they use sendmail. If this is true, it is quite likely that identd
> causes the trouble (at least it was true for me on one box).
>
> Have a nice time,
>
> Joerg

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