Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:53:55 -0500 From: "Vivid" <vivid@shaw.wave.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: nat/identd problem Message-ID: <001001be7179$0e33a640$0200a8c0@windows.housemixes.com>
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I know that there are several BNC packages out there. I've seen the one from the ports collection and several others out there on the net. What would you recommend? And will this compromise my security in any way. I.e is this easily exploitable.. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark R. Grant [mailto:mgrant@ionet.net] > Sent: March 18, 1999 2:03 PM > To: Ben Wentworth > Subject: Re: nat/identd problem > > > Run BNC. Ident will not work because the ident request comes in the ident > port, but there isn't anyone logged on to the BSD box. BNC will spoof a > logged in user to provide an ident response to the ident request. Or you > can redirect that port to your W95 box. The only downfall there is that > ident won't work when logged on to the FBSD box. > > Of course, you can always use an IRC server that does not require an ident > response. > > Mark > > Ben Wentworth wrote: > > > Hi, I am having problems with identd over a nat configuration. My > > system consists of a FreeBSD box with pidentd and nat installed. This > > box is obviously connected to the Internet and there are also windows > > machines which are internal. The identd works fine on the bsd box, > > however when I try to IRC on one of the windows machines I get the > > lovely "please install identd" message from the IRC server. I have > > the settings in MIRC in windows correctly set. > > > > My thoughts are that I require an identd that will work correctly > > under NAT or that I have a configuration problem with pidentd. Can > > someone help. Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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