From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 17:59:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E125F37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a081.otenet.gr [212.205.215.81]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g530xnHq025328; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:59:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g530xlLv001039; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:59:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g530xkMF001038; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:59:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:59:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Fwd: IRC vs identd vs inetd.conf vs me! [255...?] Message-ID: <20020603005939.GA344@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020602001830.GD2950@hades.hell.gr> <20020602203526.F33640-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020602203526.F33640-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-06-02 20:39 -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > The IP is probably coming out as 255.255.255.255 because the IRC > > server software, either: > > Do you mean IRC client? I am not running an IRC server. You are trying to connect to an IRC server though! > > You wouldn't happen to be running identd in a machine that is > > behind a firewall or masquerading gateway, which blocks the > > incoming identd requests from the IRC server, right? > > I -wish- I were behind a firewall... But I could never understand > "open" or "simple" etc uses of ipfw (in /etc/rc.conf yes?) Besides, > identd is not running; Something [builtin?] called auth is supposed > to be taking care of ident queries to my PC on port 113 or whatever. You can always use sockstat(1) to find out. # sockstat -l4 | grep 113 PS: Please do NOT reindent my text and `unwrap' it. I like my 70-column wrapped text a lot better :-P - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message