Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:11:58 -0500 From: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> To: Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi>, Sheepman <sheepman@mindcrash.com> Cc: williamsl@home.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pidentd Message-ID: <4.1.19991212111055.009552e0@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991212141700.007e2ac0@netcore.home> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912111021230.22332-100000@hemorrhage.mindcr ash.com> <7101.991211@Home.Com>
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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
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