From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 16:26: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5012814BCA for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991212002557.YKXK17996.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 16:25:57 -0800 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:23:36 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <17808.991211@Home.Com> To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: pidentd In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew, Saturday, December 11, 1999 I am finally coming to that conclusion myself. How can inetd return a (bogus) ident answer? I used oidentd when I had a Linux-Router sitting where my FreeBSD box is now for such purposes but there are several things that explicitly do not like Linux "firewalls" and I am trying to get my FreeBSD box to be a transparent router. Any pointers and/or clues would be appreciated! -- Ben. Saturday, December 11, 1999, 6:47:22 AM, you wrote: auna> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote: >> I am trying to get pidentd (or any other ident daemon) to work for >> masqueraded hosts on a private LAN connected to the internet via a auna> It cant work with hosts behind a NATD gateway (very easily). You can get auna> some identd's that fake a reply...I think inetd can do that for you. auna> Andrew -- Ben mailto:williamsl@Home.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message