Dragoncrest disturbed my sleep to write:
> Now, on to the next bit of fun. Fetchmail is being dog slow. Yet
> it's being silent and won't tell me why.
Fetchmail was doing the same to me. It turned out that the POP server (one I
run myself) was running the identd daemon, and was trying to query the computer
that was running fetchmail to verify my identity. I had my firewall set up to
drop these packets -- but this just makes the identd daemon try harder, until
finally it times out. I read somewhere that the Right Way to take care of this
was to send reset packets back, rather than silently drop them; the identd daemon
gives up right away (or nearly so).
Try using ipfw like so:
reset tcp from any 113 to any in recv <foo>
where <foo> is set to whatever your external interface, and see if that makes a
difference.
Hope this helps,
Hugh
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