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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:29:48 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
Cc:        James Johnson <bonk1138@msn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NATD and ident
Message-ID:  <20000707202948.F13648@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000707221519.B57699@albury.net.au>
References:  <KJEDKFEKMMFFMPFPBLJHGEILCCAA.bonk1138@msn.com> <20000707221519.B57699@albury.net.au>

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Nick Slager wrote:

> Thus spake James Johnson (bonk1138@msn.com):
> 
>> The problem I've run into before doing this is attempting to run IRC clients
>> from behind the machine running NAT, they cannto respond to the IRC servers
>> Ident request... Has anyone developed a workaround for this?
> 
> Install an ident daemon :-)

No, don't.  Use the one built-in to inetd instead. :-) Works perfectly
for me, there's a sample entry in /etc/inetd.conf.

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

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