Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:05:34 +0200 From: Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi> To: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> Cc: williamsl@home.com, Sheepman <sheepman@mindcrash.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pidentd Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991212190534.007ec9b0@netcore.home> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991212114203.00959100@mail.udel.edu> References: <3.0.6.32.19991212184024.0097fa70@netcore.home> <4.1.19991212111055.009552e0@mail.udel.edu> <3.0.6.32.19991212141700.007e2ac0@netcore.home> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912111021230.22332-100000@hemorrhage.mindcr ash.com> <7101.991211@Home.Com>
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>If you're running windows boxen behind your FreeBSD server, then (at least >I think) the EASIEST way to solve your problem is to run IRC clients on >yoru windows boxen which contain identd servers to themselves. This This is correct, but doesn't help the actual problem because internal boxes never get those ident requests. The scenario here is that upon connecting to an irc server, the server asks from your BSD server's identd who the heck that user is. FreeBSD's identd server has no way of knowing that this request should be forwarded to a NAT'ed windows box X. So, there will never be an identd request from irc server to MIRC to respond to. The working behaviour could probably be achieves so that the identd server on FreeBSD examined NAT state data and forwarded requests appropriately (if the server was configured to forward them - this could be security risk too). You could, of course, redirect all identd requests coming on your FreeBSD box to the internal windows box, but this would break the BSD box pretty badly. (e.g. login timeouts when using FTP) - and there could be only one computer in your private LAN that'd use ident. One solution might be to use an appropriate proxy/bouncer in the FreeBSD box and connect to it using IRC clients, but I wouldn't want to do that. Pekka Savola pekkas@netcore.fi --- Across the nations the stories spread like spiderweb laid upon spiderweb, and men and women planned the future, believing they knew truth. They planned, and the Pattern absorbed their plans, weaving toward the future foretold. -- Robert Jordan: The Path of Daggers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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