From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 15: 8:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EA437B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11279; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:09:38 -0500 Message-Id: <200010202209.RAA11279@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, doomstar@doomstar.com Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:15:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: IRC/oidentd problem In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Oct 00, at 10:47, doomstar@doomstar.com wrote: Watch your mouth about the man pages, especially if you're as broke as you purport. Have you tried IRC'ing from your firewall? That's usually not the smartest idea in the world, but if there's a problem with ident (tcp: 113), then it may be due to your firewall blocking it. Therefore, install ircii or bitchX and try it from there. Is the IRC server saying you have a problem with identd, or does it just say you're unauthorised? BTW, if you're trying to get onto Efnet lately, and your ISP doesn't *own* an Efnet server, you're going to run into a lot of this; they won't allow users that aren't special. What networks have you tried? What is your IP scheme? What kind of network connection do you have? What is included in your firewall rules? How are you invoking oidentd, and with what arguments? If the man pages suck, what shall we say of your description of your problem? -Charlie > Hi, > I have a FreeBSD4.1 box set up as a firewall/natd/dhcpd box. I have a > windows box behind this firewall. I can get online and use the internet from > the windows box but I cannot connect to IRC servers. They all say I'm not > authorized. I installed the oidentd package and thought I set it up according > to the man page, restarted inetd with kill -HUP [pid] but its still not working. I > even created oidentd.users in /etc which I thought I did right. The man pages > suck. They are written for people who already know how to do this stuff. > I dont know what to do and I have searched for info and help with no luck. > The FreeBSD book I have doesn't even mention identd.. but its not the latest > book. Am I screwed? I would think its possible to do what i'm trying to do > but I am really confused. > Thanks for any help.. I would offer to pay for help but I dont have any money. > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message