From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 12 11: 4:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836F514CF9 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04630; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:12:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37DBDEFB.E1059B10@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:12:27 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neal Downe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: identd References: <19990912070008.39670.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neal Downe wrote: > > I use some servers that require I send valid ident responses. The problem > is that because the ident is an incoming TCP connection and I'm NAT'ing > multiple machines to the same public IP, there's no way that I can think of > to pass the request through my gateway (3.2-RELEASE) to the machine the > ident is intended for. There is voluminous information about this in the archives. > Is the ident daemon in /etc/inetd.conf what I'm looking for? Assuming you are using an up to date 3.x-Stable, yes. > I'd have to have inetd running to use an identd, right? No, but it's highly recommended. > What are the security risks involved with running an identd? None if it's configured properly. The built in identd in recent versions of -Stable is well written and very likely to be risk free. No one can gurantee your system's security 100%, if they do they are lying to you. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message