Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:26:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: Doug@gorean.org (Doug), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <199907112026.PAA38415@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990711131918.jdp@polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Jul 11, 1999 01:19:18 pm"
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> Doug wrote: > > John Polstra wrote: > >> > >> Are you sure? If you simply don't run an identd, the queries will > >> get an instant connection refused error. That's even faster than > >> sending back a bogus response. > > > > Many daemons that request ident, and almost all IRC daemons > > that I'm aware of don't take "NO" for an answer. They sit waiting > > for a valid response, and timeout after X seconds, where X is c. 30 > > seconds. > > Really?? Even though their connect() call failed? Ick! I know > sendmail doesn't behave that way. I'll take your word about the IRC > daemons -- I don't know anything about them. > > > Whether this behavior is good or not begs the question, > > Agreed. Every ircd i've ever seen will immediately return on a connection refused response. With ident: [15:22] -irc.dragondata.com- Looking up your hostname... [15:22] -irc.dragondata.com- Found your hostname, cached [15:22] -irc.dragondata.com- Checking Ident *** Identd request from 204.137.237.3 *** Identd replied: 1063, 4242 : USERID : UNIX : toasty [15:22] -irc.dragondata.com- Got Ident response PING? PONG! Welcome to Newnet Toasty9 Your host is irc.dragondata.com, running version nn-1.3devel.tmnotefix.noudpspam.hnam Elapsed time was less than 1 second. With no ident: [15:21] -irc.dragondata.com- Looking up your hostname... [15:21] -irc.dragondata.com- Checking Ident [15:21] -irc.dragondata.com- Found your hostname ToastyMan Nickname is already in use. PING? PONG! Welcome to Newnet Toasty9 Your host is irc.dragondata.com, running version nn-1.3devel.tmnotefix.noudpspam.hnam Elapsed time was less than 1 second. (I just tested this in NewNet, DALnet, EFnet, and Undernet) The only time I see it sitting there for 30 seconds is if ircd gets no response at all back, (no 'connection refused') Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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