Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 12:38:39 -0500 From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@mcs.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "wincent" <wincent@dingoblue.net.au> Subject: Re: IRC from behind a gateway Message-ID: <199912051738.LAA25768@Mailbox.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <B46EC1B7.1C1F%wincent@dingoblue.net.au>
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On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 13:03:51 +1030, wincent wrote: *snip* >When I try to use IRC, many servers insist that I run "inetd" or they'll >boot me off. They insist that you run identd - not to be confused with inetd. *snip* >But, if I try to run a client on a private machine *behind* the gateway they >boot me off every time, whether or not inetd is running on the gateway. >(Seeing as the machine in question is a Mac, I couldn't run inetd on that >anyway). I've yet to find a way to do this myself. I *MUCH* prefer my Windows/OS-2 client (OpenCHAT) to IRCII, or many of the other IRC clients available to FBSD. However, you require what is called a proxy identd. There are *TONS* of them outhere for Linux (oidentd, midentd, etc, etc) which compile and run find on FBSD, but do not offer the Masq'in/proxying support you require for your client machines. And you'd have to run identd on your Mac - most likely, its built into your IRC client. This is a problem these days because 98% of the servers on EFNET now require you to identd yourself. If you happen to find a solution (or more precisely, someone willing to port one of the afore mentioned apps) *LET* me know! Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: HECK IS WHERE PEOPLE GO WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN GOSH PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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