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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:17:00 +0200
From:      Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi>
To:        Sheepman <sheepman@mindcrash.com>
Cc:        williamsl@home.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pidentd
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.19991212141700.007e2ac0@netcore.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912111021230.22332-100000@hemorrhage.mindcr ash.com>
References:  <7101.991211@Home.Com>

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>  When I set up masq'ing awhile back I used a different ident daemon.  I
>did not use pidentd.  I think maybe it was cidentd, but I am not sure.  It
>was specifically for ip masqing.  Hope this helps a smidge.  :)
>
>>    I am trying to get pidentd (or any other ident daemon) to work for
>> masqueraded hosts on a private LAN connected to the internet via a
>> 3.2-RELEASE box. I've managed to successfully compile and install
>> pidentd which works as a standard ident daemon but I am having
>> difficulty figuring out how to make it work for masq'd hosts. Any
>> ideas?

Hi,

I encountered the similar problem myself - and asked around for solutions.
I have come to the conclusion that there are _no_ identd implementations
for FreeBSD that would support NAT/Masq'ed connections.  There are plenty
of them for Linux, but they seem to use proc filesystem and are of no use..  

Pidentd doesn't support masqed connections.  There is patch for it to do
that, but it is Linux only
(http://www.manpages.org/pidentd/pidentd+fm-1.1.patch.gz).

Midentd and Oidentd support masqed connections in Linux, but not in *BSD. 
There are more like these, just check e.g. freshmeat.

Ident2 doesn't seem to do masqed connections at all
(http://www.nyct.net/~defile/programs/ident2/).

Cidentd doesn't seem to have been updated since 1996, and there is a nasty
buffer overflow in it.

Regards,

Pekka Savola			pekkas@netcore.fi
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