From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 20 17:43:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA05383 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA05262 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:42:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA03792; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 01:29:30 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199706210029.BAA03792@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: hcremean@vt.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Identd and ppp -alias not working In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:40:59 EDT." <19970620174059.45538@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 01:29:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > When I try to use ppp -alias and pidentd-2.7.4, remote hosts always seem > to get NO-USER responses, but when I turn off aliasing, it works. How > can I fix this? (P.S. it works on local connections) The only way this can be made to work is by making the alias code understand how to accept incoming ident connections and direct them to the appropriate (unaliased) IP:port (AFAIR, the ident stuff passes a port number and expects a user name back ?). Basically, with the alias stuff activated, you're firewalled tighter than a *oops* *slap* > -- > Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower)|A! JW223 > "People are idiots who deserve to be mocked."--Dogbert|YWD+++i P&B+++ SL+++^i > My home page:http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | MD+++r P+ I++ Di > "Whoa, dumber than advertised!" | $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....