From owner-freebsd-net Sun Apr 9 11: 9: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BEC737B545 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:08:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12eKj5-000Avr-00; Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:38:19 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12eKj5-0003Vd-00; Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:38:19 +0100 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:38:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Stan Brown Cc: FreeBSD Networking Subject: Re: identd Message-ID: <20000409173819.A78591@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200004091445.HAA14400@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200004091445.HAA14400@netcom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stan Brown wrote: > one of my upstream pop servers has just been upgraded to a 4.0 machine. > It's now attempting to connect to port 113. I see in /etc/servicesthat > this is the identd port. > > I looked around a bit in the ports collection and found identd2. Should > I be runing this? > > The machine in question is a FreeBSD 3.4 STABLE machine, that is > serving as my nat gateway to the world, via a cablemodem. No need to install an identd daemon, inetd has identd support built-in. Just add a line like auth stream tcp nowait root internal auth -r -o UNKNOWN -t 30 to /etc/inetd.conf. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message