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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:11:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dennis Ostrovsky <denis.ostrovsky@yale.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ident question
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911071708410.21585-100000@mercury.cis.yale.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19991107165025.A2872@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> It shouldn't be. inetd *is* listening on port 113, so (this is going to
> sound stupid) do you have two entries for ident in inetd.conf? It seems
> if they are both "auth" inetd won't complain, and will just ignore the
> first one, but if you have one "auth" and one "ident", you get the error
> you are reporting. You should check that anyway.

Well it's not stupid because that's kind of what I had, so I'm stupid
hehe. :) I had the return error for ident requests as auth, but the ident
server itself as ident. Changed it to auth and all seems to be well.
Thanks very much. :)

Dennis

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    Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University  

E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu     WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33     
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