Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:46:37 -0500 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Ben Yiu' <byiu@shaw.wave.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Identd and NAT Install Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5F93@site2s1>
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Use a server that doesn't require ident. ;^) I have the same setup. There is nothing configured wrong about identd, and as far as I have been able to tell there is no way to configure NATd to work around this. I wish there was a better answer because I have the same setup. I believe how identd works, is that when the ident request is sent, the originating port is sent to the machine, and the identd would respond with the userid of the owner of the process on that port. The thing is, the port number that is being used on the windows machine doesn't correspond to anything useful on the UNIX machine. ergo, no ident response. (if someone wants to clarify on anything I may be wrong about please do, this is my basic understanding). The only way I have been able to work around this issue would be to install an irc proxy such as BNC and then connect to irc via that. (mIRC would be connecting to the BSD machine and then the BSD machine would be making the actual connection to the irc server, and hence ident works.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Yiu [SMTP:byiu@shaw.wave.ca] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Identd and NAT Install > > 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. > And > please don't tell me to use a server that does not require identd :) > Thanks > > > Ben Wentworth > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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