Date: 26 Feb 2002 19:49:09 -0700 From: Scott long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, core@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, jake@locore.ca, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s genassym.c machdep. c... Message-ID: <1014778149.2140.70.camel@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20020226183946.B78262@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020226183946.B78262@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 19:39, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:59:18PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I can never get on IRC because I'm always behind some firewall or > another > > (something about "ident") and Im not alone.. > > identd is a service which is builtin to FreeBSD's inetd; you can > enable it by uncommenting the following line in inetd.conf: > > # Provide internally a real "ident" service which provides ~/.fakeid > support, > # provides ~/.noident support, reports UNKNOWN as the operating system > type > # and times out after 30 seconds. > # > #auth stream tcp nowait root internal auth -r -f -n -o > UNKNOWN -t 30 > > services querying identd make incoming connections to your machine on > the auth port (113) so your firewall needs to allow that (possibly via > a port forwarding if you're using NAT) > > Kris I already responded to Julian privately about this, but I guess others may benefit as well. Yes, ident is provided via inetd as you describe, but I believe that Julian's situation is that he's behind a firewall that he doesn't control, and that firewall doesn't allow incoming connections on port 113. Thus, enabling ident has no effect on the problem. I've found that certain efnet servers are less picky than others about requiring ident. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to publish those server names in public, but I found them by going through the default efnet list in XChat. Also, many years ago there used to be an irc.freebsd.org that wasn't associated with any network but itself. Maybe that could be revived (Yahoo? USW?), along with some sort of authentication system that keeps out the warez kiddies. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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