Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 03:59:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fwd: IRC vs identd vs inetd.conf vs me! [255...?] Message-ID: <20020603005939.GA344@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020602203526.F33640-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020602001830.GD2950@hades.hell.gr> <20020602203526.F33640-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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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
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