Re: ircii question

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:12:56PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > If someone wants access to your box, because of the absurd bandwidth > available to a cracker (botnet, anyone?), they'll just try every xploit > in their db, regardless of it's compatibility with your alleged system. Sure, but how ofte

Re: ircii question

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to >>> an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? >>> >> >> pidentd >> >> >>

Re: ircii question

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:40:42PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > Indeed that can be a problem. I have pidentd disabled, but I can use IRC > because I've opened port 113 (auth/ident) in my firewall. If the port is > closed but accessible, most IRC servers will allow the connection. This is the defau

Re: ircii question

2008-05-02 Thread s. keeling
Håkon Alstadheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect > >> to an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? > > > > pidentd > > I would also think something like in

Re: ircii question

2008-05-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/02/2008 01:16 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: s. keeling wrote: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? pidentd I would also think something like inetd or xin

Re: ircii question

2008-05-02 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
s. keeling wrote: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? pidentd I would also think something like inetd or xinetd would be good. Identd should not need to ru

Re: ircii question

2008-05-02 Thread s. keeling
Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to an irc > server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? pidentd -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html