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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:20:03 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bjarni Runar Einarsson <bre@netverjar.is>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: natd & identd cooperation?  (and identd + jails)
Message-ID:  <20001020172003.A50854@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001020140347.A25546@klaki.net>; from bre@netverjar.is on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:03:47PM %2B0000
References:  <20001018184017.A1218@klaki.net> <20001019110110.C98924@sunbay.com> <20001019120511.A4555@sunbay.com> <20001020140347.A25546@klaki.net>

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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:03:47PM +0000, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote:
> On 2000-10-19, 12:05:11 (+0300) Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > I am working on implementing IDENT support for libalias(3) and (as a
> > > consequence) for natd(8).  Meanwhile, you can do it with inetd(8) as
> > > follows:
> 
> I took a stab at the problem, and have implemented primitive support
> within libalias for cooperation with oidentd.  
> 
> The implementation uses my UDB library
> (http://bre.klaki.net/programs/udb/), which allows the libalias app.
> and the ident server to share a table of ip<->user and
> connection<->user or connection<->connection mappings. The ident
> protocol doesn't by default allow user-land forwarding of connections
> (machine A can't request info about connections between B and C), but
> adding support for forwarded requests to an ident daemon is
> relatively easy.
> 
I am mostly interested in a real IDENT support for libalias(3), that
would allow it to redirect incoming IDENT queries to the original host.
Is it in any way possible with your patch?

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