From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 13:31:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5075C37C3C7 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:30:40 -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 3.15 #1) id 13Ador-000DwU-00; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:29:49 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Adoq-000N6Q-00; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:29:48 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:29:48 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Nick Slager Cc: James Johnson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NATD and ident Message-ID: <20000707202948.F13648@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000707221519.B57699@albury.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000707221519.B57699@albury.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nick Slager wrote: > Thus spake James Johnson (bonk1138@msn.com): >=20 >> The problem I've run into before doing this is attempting to run IRC cli= ents >> from behind the machine running NAT, they cannto respond to the IRC serv= ers >> Ident request... Has anyone developed a workaround for this? >=20 > Install an ident daemon :-) No, don't. Use the one built-in to inetd instead. :-) Works perfectly for me, there's a sample entry in /etc/inetd.conf. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: k+uXXupNgLIPF2rijsrr99CkyH55fQEE iQCVAwUBOWYvqysPVtiZOS99AQFaYQP9E5jGx5imunhx33CMQLKA3mD9IEKSWJTO kKHpyxBJfR8sGbkvSMbyhLn+w6Y8WXTW6KCED03Cbb82QGu3zya/t5FYww4M8nq4 Mn14uK3cdCk6N3DB9E4aAgrsCn/MDb+lbNxUVHdlHSlmodqGEn0okoBbvauOTYFK ERBl+GGwbZk= =b/NC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3oCie2+XPXTnK5a5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message