From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 14 12:20:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FF015434 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA70604; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907141920.MAA70604@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: ports/12596: pidentd is unstable in 3.2 and 4.0 Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/12596; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: Kevin Day Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, green@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/12596: pidentd is unstable in 3.2 and 4.0 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:08:43 +0200 On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:40:12 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > I can understand the stuck identd processes perhaps, from inetd, but.. I > > don't see how inetd can make identd return 'no user' when it shouldn't. :) > > I don't see that either. You will want to try one of two things: *grrr* What you can't see _can_ hurt you. Please don't let Brian's comments influence your willingness to try this with a working inetd. I just ran 10000 connections to my ident port and queried a valid socket/port pair, redirecting the output to a text file. Here's what I found: for i in `jot 10000 1` ; do nc axl.noc.iafrica.com 113 nc-ident.out wc -l nc-ident.out 10000 ident.out sort nc-ident.out | uniq 3237 , 11338 : USERID : UNIX :sheldonh I'm not saying that it's impossible that there are bugs in pidentd. I'm just saying that writing new code to replace it because you think that it has bugs that aren't there, instead of tracking down those bugs, is downright silly. Please try with a fixed inetd. If you still encounter problems, I'll be more than happy to help you resolve them. Your feedback will be very much appreciated. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message