Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:02:58 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IdentD probs (WAS Re: ident, apache, named, and probably more...) Message-ID: <19991116070258.A71401@internal> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991115215730.0094bf00@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@UDel.Edu on Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:02:58PM -0500 References: <4.1.19991115123041.00949aa0@mail.udel.edu> <4.1.19991114224428.00974c60@mail.udel.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911150814340.29169-100000@mail.wolves.k12.m <4.1.19991115123041.00949aa0@mail.udel.edu> <19991115210946.A69442@internal> <4.1.1999111521573
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On Mon, 15-Nov-1999 at 22:02:58 -0500, John wrote: > >> >> In the past week, I've installed and configured named and apache (with > >> >> modssl). Everything was going great until i rebooted last night. > >> >> I wanted to hop onto irc for a bit (using ircII), and well, I'm getting a > >> >> response from the servers saying that I need to have my sysadmin install > >> >> identd. The thing is that I've had pidentd installed for 2+ months now > >> >> and it WAS working flawlessly. I'm running v3.3 right now. Nothign I > >> >> found in the archives seemed to be the cure. > > >> >First make sure identd is set up properly in /etc/inetd.conf and that > >> >the internal "fake" identd is turned off. If the inetd entry is > >> >correct, remove identd and then recompile it cleanly from the ports > >> >collection. > > >> identd is set up in /etc/inetd.conf as: > >> ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w > >> -t120 > > >Mine is: > >auth stream tcp wait root /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 > > >and it works perfectly. Don't know if this is the problem... > > I tried changing my from "ident" to "auth" for the first arguement, and > still no good. This is what I get: > > *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.mcs.net > *** Looking up your hostname... > *** Found your hostname, cached > *** Checking Ident > *** Notice -- You need to install identd to use this server > *** Closing Link: myhost.udel.edu (Install identd) > *** Connection closed from irc.mcs.net: Remote end closed connection > > Which is positively BAFFLING to me still. Possible changes, that might > affect this are is my configuration of named. However I was operating > under a fudged domain name the entire time that identd WAS working. Doing > a kill -9 on the named process and a kill -HUP on the inetd process still > yields no results. > > Any more ideas of places I can look? More in private mail... > > I even took a wild stab in the dark and compiled the older pident-2.8.1 > port (as opposed to the current pident-2.8.5 port), and it made no difference. > > Thanks again all, > John -- "BSD, from the people who brought you TCP/IP." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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