According to Ray Dermody:
> After running a portscan on one of out 7.2 servers I noticed that port
> 113 is open. I am pretty sure that we dont need this and would wish to
> shut this service down.
> I have looked through /etc/identd.conf but can't see anything particular.
> Any help anybody?
That would be identd. Some services (IRC, some smtp) won't talk to you
if they can't get an answer of some sort from identd.
Cheers,
Waider.
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