From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 01:10:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11998 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 01:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA11953 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 01:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ywMdA-00042U-00; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:09:40 +0200 Message-ID: <19980715100940.C15447@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:09:40 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Should i enable ident server? Mail-Followup-To: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" , FreeBSD Questions References: <35AC5D82.BB1B8BB@smartmedia.com.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35AC5D82.BB1B8BB@smartmedia.com.ar>; from Numard (Norberto Meijome) on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:42:58PM +1000 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 at 17:42 SAT, Numard (Norberto Meijome) wrote: > > should i enable the ident server? Security / performance related > risks????? It's up to you whether you want to run it. There _should_ not be any risks. Even if you don't run it, though, I would suggest allowing remote hosts to connect to your TCP port 113 - even if nothing is listening to it. That would speed up transactions with remote hosts which try to query your identd. (Note: This assumes that you're running some form of packet filtering, like ipfw.) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message