On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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?
>
I was telnetting to my shell account on my ISP's server.
:-)
> You should see two messages - one showing the
> incomming request, and one > showing the lookup.
> Here is what a 5.2 system shows:
>
Ok. I didn't see anything like that. I su-ed to root and
did a "less messages | grep ident" and nothing like the
examples you gave popped up. A "cat /etc/services" points
port 113 for ident, so maybe Ident isn't working
properly....
>
> The messages from 6.2
> should look something like that. (I don't have > identd
> running on my 6.2 systems...) >
>
Thanks. I think I'll try a different ident server and see
if that helps.
John
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