From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 12 8:12: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180FA14D19 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 08:12:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27037; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:11:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19991212111055.009552e0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:11:58 -0500 To: Pekka Savola , Sheepman From: John Subject: Re: pidentd Cc: williamsl@home.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991212141700.007e2ac0@netcore.home> References: <7101.991211@Home.Com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are the boxes that you're trying to ident on FreeBSD boxes or windows boxes or mac boxes? --John >> 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message