On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > I'm not sure you understand... I'm not masquerading behind another
> > linux box...the only "masquerading" I'm doing is behind my ISDN
> > router, which is set to pass port 113 to my linux box.
> > John
> >
> Is the Linux machine configured as a firewall? If so, this should still
> work. Otherwise, you have to configure the Linux machine to pass on ident
> requests to the machines inside the firewall. Or configure your ISDN
> router to pass on the ident requests to the correct IP on your local
> network. Another thing that may work is to set your router to reject
> ident requests. (Reject, not deny!) That will tell the IRC server that
> your system doesn't accept connections on port 113. So far, it works for
> me.
>
Mikkel:
Please RE-READ my original post. I'm trying to do IRC from
the only linux box in the house. It is NOT configured as a
firewall, and the ISDN router IS configured to pass what I
believe to be the correct port number (113, iirc) to the
linux box. Curretnly, "ps aux" reports about 5 or 6
instances of "ident -e -o" running as "nobody."
Now a friend of mine suggested a different package than the
original, "oident." If necessary, I can probably get a
static IP from my ISP (also my job. <G>) But, I don't do
IRC that much. OTOH, it might help with some internet
games. :-)
Any other suggestions?
John
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