At 11:06 PM 7/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I've got a question here.... I've got an ISDN router and
>I've got ident configured to run on my linux box and have
>port 113 pointed to the linux box SPECIFICALLY to allow
>ident lookups. Well, this evening, I was trying to do some
>IRC stuff and ended up having to telnet into my shell
>account and run IRC from there.
>
>What's the use in having a decent linux system if you
>can't run IRC off it occasionally? I kept getting ident
>errors back from the IRC servers....almost as if I didn't
>have IDENT configured. I was using KSIRC. Does that client
>have a problem with ident or something???? I'm running
>RedHat 6.2 with whatever version of KSIRC came with RH6.2.
> John
>
>
John,
There is an identd package just for cases like yours.
The problem is the way identd normaly works - it looks up the
owner of the process and returns that info to the system
requesting it. But a masquarding box doesn't have the process
running on it, so it has no idea who is running it.
In steps masqidentd - you run it on the masquarading system,
and on the other Linux systems on your local network, and it will
properly identify who is talking to irc. If the process is not
running on the masquarading box, it passes the ident request to the
proper machine, and passes the responce back.
Check http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/08/21/935219773.html
Mikkel
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