From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 1 1:38:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com (pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com [80.1.76.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0359237B400 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 40595 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 09:38:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO matt.thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 09:38:19 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:38:19 +0000 From: Matt H To: "Christian Nelson" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question Regarding IENTD Message-Id: <20020201093819.10e8ecc3.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <020401c1aae3$bd106170$0100a8c0@freestylin> References: <020401c1aae3$bd106170$0100a8c0@freestylin> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:46:04 -0800 "Christian Nelson" wrote: > Hi..I'm new to the mailing lists.so give me a break here..and let me > know if I'm doing this totally wrong. yeah, you should direct questions to freebsd-questions and not newbies newbies is for, well, people to discuss what it's like being a newbie and I've never seen any traffic in here regarding newbieism butI do see plenty of mis-directed questions... > (http/ssh/ssh2/ftp all work fine) except that for some reason I cannot > get IDENTD to work. I had it running before it was behind the router > fine and it worked great. Once they dig around a bit most people dump inetd as it's not a great piece of software. Apparently it leaks memory (bad thing) and can be insecure (badder thing) the alternatives usually recommended are xinetd, tcpwrapeprs or tcpserver I use tcpserver because that's what gets installed when you replace sendmail with qmail you might get different and possibly better advice from freebsd-questions though M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message