On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Chuck Mead wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:07:09 -0500 (EST)
> From: Chuck Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: identd issues?
>
> I am seeing this repeatedly in /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 26 09:05:36 varmint xinetd[8674]: Bad line received from identity
> server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: 4285
>
> Now the machine located at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not doing anything bad (I
> know who they are!) as they are definitely a proper client. Does anybody
> know what may be causing this?
>
> --
Not sure about this either, but I saw this message myself some time ago
and I think I fixed it by closing the identd port in /etc/inetd.conf (simply
uncomment the entry).
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