Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:42:08 +0100 From: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl> To: wincent <wincent@dingoblue.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IRC from behind a gateway Message-ID: <19991205184208.A95912@esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <B46EC1B7.1C1F%wincent@dingoblue.net.au> References: <B46BB1FF.19B7%wincent@dingoblue.net.au> <B46EC1B7.1C1F%wincent@dingoblue.net.au>
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On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:03:51PM +1030, wincent wrote: > (Already tried sending this, but it bounced back... apologies if it went > through twice!) > > I've had a great time on the net since setting up a FreeBSD gateway! I love > this OS already. But here's a question.... > > When I try to use IRC, many servers insist that I run "inetd" or they'll > boot me off. Are you sure you don't mean _identd_? inetd is not a very common requirement. > > But, if I try to run a client on a private machine *behind* the gateway they > boot me off every time, whether or not inetd is running on the gateway. > (Seeing as the machine in question is a Mac, I couldn't run inetd on that > anyway). > > So what's up? Is this peculiar to IRC or have I got my configuration wrong > somewhere? Other protocols and services work fine: ssh, ftp, http, DNS etc. Have you allowed the identd packages to go through? That should be inbound traffic to port 113 Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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