From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 11 15:23:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B31C14DD1 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26673; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:23:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA24216; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:23:50 -0500 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id RAA07163; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:23:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:23:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199907112223.RAA07163@free.pcs> To: peter@netplex.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >response, it kicks you out. Basically, to use a well connected irc server, >you *must* run an identd that returns a valid username response, and that >username is used in your conversations. Some servers will let you on >without a fully functional identd, but in my experience they seem to be the >most unreliable as they are the most abused. Uh, not always. I've been on/off of IRC for the last, oh, 7 years or so, and _still_ don't bother to run identd. It's a nuisance, and as I'm the admin on my machines, I don't need it. I've always managed to find some well-run servers that don't require identd. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message