Hanging SMTP sessions...

One problem we've seen is with mail servers which want ident, and
remote sites which firewall ident - but by silently swallowing the
SYNs instead of sending RSTs.

FYI,

Avi

: Hi all,

: anyone come across stuff like this? We are runing qmail 1.03, and i'm seeing
: some strange things. I have a number of SMTP sessions which just hang, and
: then time out. No mail is actually accepted from these sessions...

: load is 0.00, so the processes are just hanging around for no reason...
: and it's always the same sources...