Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:03:32 -0500 From: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> To: Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi> Cc: williamsl@home.com, Sheepman <sheepman@mindcrash.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pidentd Message-ID: <4.1.19991212200211.0093e390@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991212190534.007ec9b0@netcore.home> References: <4.1.19991212114203.00959100@mail.udel.edu> <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. I went back through my notes from earlier this year, and alas discovered that I never did solve the problem you're describing. And at the time of my posting a response to your answer, I guess I wasn't awake enough to fully absorb the question. Simply put, I'd like to apologize for posting a useless answer that didn't help in the slightest :) Regards, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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