On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> 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
>
Sorry - the way I read the origional post was that the only way you could
do irc was to telnet to the Linux box first. Did you check the logs to
see if Ident is actualy recieving the request and responding?
You should see two messages - one showing the incomming request, and one
showing the lookup.
Here is what a 5.2 system shows:
Jul 9 22:17:19 gatekeeper identd[12825]: from: 192.168.9.1 (
gatekeeper.Infinity-ltd.com ) for: 25189, 25
Jul 9 22:17:19 gatekeeper identd[12825]: Successful lookup: 25189 , 25
: mikkel.mikkel
The messages from 6.2 should look something like that. (I don't have
identd running on my 6.2 systems...)
Mikkel
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