Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 03:33:01 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ident and irc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990519032847.26546K-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990519074748.ORBY7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a 3.1-stable box as a gateway for my home LAN using ipfilter > and ipnat. I'm running identd. The ident works fine if I irc from the > gateway. > > But if I use mIRC from my NT box or BitchX from another FreeBSD box, ident > doesn't go. My /whois is prefixed with a tilde (~). > > I have found an ident server for NT, but what use would that be? Any > solutions available? Is this an NAT issue? > > I've read in the mailing list archives about installing a sock5 fireall. > Does that make sense given my current use of ipfilter and ipnat? no, if anything you want to use the "perminent_link" option in natd to connect the "auth" port (ident port 113) to a single internal machine and run ident off that. the problem with proxy-ing ident is that ident works like so: "hey who's the user connected to me on port A coming from port B on you?" ^^ the problem is the "me"... when you proxy ident it just doesn't work. the problem when you proxy ident requests is that the machine proxying the ident query doesn't have a connection open, most ident servers will not respond. btw, use ircii, bitchX is irritating. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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