From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 12 19:25:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22785 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22734 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id MAA16165; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:24:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma016158; Mon, 13 Jul 98 12:24:58 +1000 Received: from saruman (saruman.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.108]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA14203; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:24:40 +1000 Message-ID: <00c401bdae05$68e9bc60$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> From: "John Saunders" To: "Carroll Kong" Cc: Subject: Re: Problems with Identd Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:24:40 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep, lose the tcpd wrapper for identd. It's also possible to get tcpd into a recusive loop when used with identd (because tcpd does an identd lookup itself on connection) and that isn't a good thing. Use the -w and -t120 options as well, they seem to work and can save load when a lot of ident requests come in. Cheers. >> ident stream tcp wait root /usr/local/libexec/tcpd >> /usr/local/sbin/identd -w -t120 > >I found a while ago (yet on 2.1-stable and 2.2.5 boxes) >that identd does not seem to work properly under tcpd. >Although, I didn't check if identd should've been recompiled with some special >option to work properly with tcpd (like sshd should be). -- . +-------------------------------------------------------+ ,--_|\ | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au | / Oz \ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61294289563 Fax +61294289933 | \_,--\_/ | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | v +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message