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Date:      Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:38:19 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Networking <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: identd
Message-ID:  <20000409173819.A78591@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200004091445.HAA14400@netcom.com>
References:  <200004091445.HAA14400@netcom.com>

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Stan Brown wrote:

> 	one of my upstream pop servers has just been upgraded to a 4.0 machine.
> 	It's now attempting to connect to port 113. I see in /etc/servicesthat
> 	this is the identd port.
> 
> 	I looked around a bit in the ports collection and found identd2. Should
> 	I be runing this?
> 
> 	The machine in question is a FreeBSD 3.4 STABLE machine, that is
> 	serving as my nat gateway to the world, via a cablemodem.

No need to install an identd daemon, inetd has identd support built-in.
Just add a line like

auth    stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal        auth -r -o UNKNOWN -t 30

to /etc/inetd.conf.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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