Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:03:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Scott long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, jake@locore.ca, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: IRC (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s genassym.c machdep.c...) Message-ID: <20020228120344.U90450@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020226183946.B78262@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1014767425.2140.30.camel@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202261558020.94891-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020226183946.B78262@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tuesday, 26 February 2002 at 18:39:46 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:59:18PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >> I can never get on IRC because I'm always behind some firewall or another >> (something about "ident") and Im not alone.. > > identd is a service which is builtin to FreeBSD's inetd; you can > enable it by uncommenting the following line in inetd.conf: > > # Provide internally a real "ident" service which provides ~/.fakeid support, > # provides ~/.noident support, reports UNKNOWN as the operating system type > # and times out after 30 seconds. > # > #auth stream tcp nowait root internal auth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 30 > > services querying identd make incoming connections to your machine on > the auth port (113) so your firewall needs to allow that (possibly via > a port forwarding if you're using NAT) A simpler way is to ssh to a system which is on the other side of the firewall. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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