From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 12:20:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9738A14C8B for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 19665 invoked from network); 6 Jul 1999 19:20:36 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 1999 19:20:36 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990706121700.00ac1930@toy> X-Sender: ludwigp@toy (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 12:20:35 -0700 To: "i think" From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: identd Cc: In-Reply-To: <000001bec5dd$0f3cf510$0300000a@TAMM.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:10 AM 7/3/1999 -0400, i think wrote: >I have a FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE machine acting as the gateway between my LAN ( >with some win9x/NT machines ) and the internet. As you well know, most irc >servers require ident to be running. Is there a way I can have the freebsd >machine respond for the windows computers? Possibly returning the same value >no matter what. What I did was set up a Socks5 proxy and have the mIRC users use that. When identd requests are made, the user returned is whatever user the Socks5 proxy is running as. (this means you have to make sure that the Socks5 daemon isn't running as root, or else a lot of IRC servers or channels will kick them.) --Ludwig Pummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message