From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 15 22: 3: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A15514D68 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA29247 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:03:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA03530 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:03:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA81263 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:03:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:02:58 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: John Cc: Andre Albsmeier , Chris Dillon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IdentD probs (WAS Re: ident, apache, named, and probably more...) Message-ID: <19991116070258.A71401@internal> References: <4.1.19991115123041.00949aa0@mail.udel.edu> <4.1.19991114224428.00974c60@mail.udel.edu> <19991115210946.A69442@internal> <4.1.1999111521573 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991115215730.0094bf00@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@UDel.Edu on Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:02:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15-Nov-1999 at 22:02:58 -0500, John wrote: > >> >> In the past week, I've installed and configured named and apache (with > >> >> modssl). Everything was going great until i rebooted last night. > >> >> I wanted to hop onto irc for a bit (using ircII), and well, I'm getting a > >> >> response from the servers saying that I need to have my sysadmin install > >> >> identd. The thing is that I've had pidentd installed for 2+ months now > >> >> and it WAS working flawlessly. I'm running v3.3 right now. Nothign I > >> >> found in the archives seemed to be the cure. > > >> >First make sure identd is set up properly in /etc/inetd.conf and that > >> >the internal "fake" identd is turned off. If the inetd entry is > >> >correct, remove identd and then recompile it cleanly from the ports > >> >collection. > > >> identd is set up in /etc/inetd.conf as: > >> ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w > >> -t120 > > >Mine is: > >auth stream tcp wait root /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 > > >and it works perfectly. Don't know if this is the problem... > > I tried changing my from "ident" to "auth" for the first arguement, and > still no good. This is what I get: > > *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.mcs.net > *** Looking up your hostname... > *** Found your hostname, cached > *** Checking Ident > *** Notice -- You need to install identd to use this server > *** Closing Link: myhost.udel.edu (Install identd) > *** Connection closed from irc.mcs.net: Remote end closed connection > > Which is positively BAFFLING to me still. Possible changes, that might > affect this are is my configuration of named. However I was operating > under a fudged domain name the entire time that identd WAS working. Doing > a kill -9 on the named process and a kill -HUP on the inetd process still > yields no results. > > Any more ideas of places I can look? More in private mail... > > I even took a wild stab in the dark and compiled the older pident-2.8.1 > port (as opposed to the current pident-2.8.5 port), and it made no difference. > > Thanks again all, > John -- "BSD, from the people who brought you TCP/IP." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message