Re: identd -- do I need it?
On 9 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> What is utility of identd daemon?
>
> Also, is it normail that it restarts once every five minutes or more
> often?
It might make things like email go more smoothly. Many times remote mail
servers will use identd back to your host to verify that the connection to
their server REALLY IS coming from the your machine. Mail to servers that
do this check will usualy still go through, it just might take time for
the identd query to time out and slow down the mail.
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