From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 18 11:40:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from klaki.net (klaki.net [130.208.195.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73AD37B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bre@localhost) by klaki.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01238 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:40:21 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:40:17 +0000 From: Bjarni Runar Einarsson To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: natd & identd cooperation? Message-ID: <20001018184017.A1218@klaki.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I'm a relatively new FreeBSD user, lured from the world of Linux by the FreeBSD jails... so far so good. I'm currently playing with a 4.1.1 box which gives jailed users access to the 'net via natd. For those users interested in using IRC, the lack of an identd which will correctly either reply on a jail-by-jail basis or relay the ident requests back to a jailed identd is a bit of a problem. No, I'm not interested in randomizing the ident replies. :-) So, my question is, am I overlooking something, or is my only option to go ahead and hack up some identd and natd so they will communicate with each other? My current strategy is to use shared-memory tables to get oidentd and natd to talk to each other, allowing me to set up both static ip<->username mappings and dynamic connection<->user mappings. I have a ready-to-use library (UDB) designed for just this sort of thing, so this shouldn't take too much effort. Am I reinventing the wheel here, or is this a worthwhile project? Please stop me if someone has already solved this problem! Please CC: any replies directly to me, since I am not at the moment subscribed to this mailing list. Thanks! -- Bjarni R. Einarsson PGP: 02764305, B7A3AB89 bre@netverjar.is -><- http://bre.klaki.net/ Netverjar gegn ruslpósti: http://www.netverjar.is/baratta/ruslpostur/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message