From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 23:10:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arpa.com (arpa.com [199.245.173.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F56237B404 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 23:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by arpa.com (Postfix, from userid 103) id AB7D0F0402; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 01:09:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 01:09:26 -0500 From: Chip Norkus To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Fwd: IRC vs identd vs inetd.conf vs me! [255...?] Message-ID: <20020603010926.K1929@arpa.com> References: <20020601000242.V67718-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020602001830.GD2950@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020602001830.GD2950@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 03:18:30AM +0300 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 Sun Jun 02, 2002; 03:18AM +0300 Giorgos Keramidas propagated the following: > On 2002-06-01 00:06 -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > PL> *** Banned: Install Identd for access (2001/4/18 09.20) > > PL> *** Closing Link: mrmeatie[root@255.255.255.255] (Banned) > > > > I have uncommented the proper "auth" lines in my /etc/inetd.conf file, > > and added one line of text (8 chars) to a file called ~/.fakeid however- > > > > I continue to get errors similar to the ones above, and wonder why the IP > > is coming out as 255's and not my actual IP address. Is it possible to run > > identd "cloaked" (or whatever) as auth externally and not just "nowait, > > internal, etc?" > > The IP is probably coming out as 255.255.255.255 because the IRC > server software, either: > > a) Tries to hide your real IP address, from the logs. > b) Can not resolve your IP address, or similar. > 'a' is correct here. Most IRC servers basically avoid ever outputting the real IP address of.. well.. anything, to just about anyone. As for identd and IRC servers, when using the internal inetd auth service, be sure to change the '-o UNKNOWN' option to '-o UNIX', or the IRC server won't believe your ident reply comes from a correct rfc1413 source. This is silliness on the part of the IRC server. > 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? > > - Giorgos > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -wd -- chip norkus; unix geek and programmer; wd@arpa.com "question = (to) ? be : !be;" --Shakespeare http://telekinesis.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message