From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 9:42:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E15215399 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@xaa.iae.nl) Received: by esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (Postfix, from userid 1008) id D2513BA03; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:42:08 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:42:08 +0100 From: Mark Huizer To: wincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IRC from behind a gateway Message-ID: <19991205184208.A95912@esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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