Subject: Re: identd not responding (?)
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/25/1996 10:26:13
On Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:16:17 -0600
Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:
> an irc server is denying service to our site because we allegedly don't
> run identd. I *know* we have an identd. This is an old -current (pre-1.1),
> but seems to be otherwise pretty reliable. The error message they send refer
s
> to "pidentd" - what's the differenc?
>
It's the default options in netbsd's identd, which I think should be changed:
Edit your /etc/inetd.cong and change the identd line to this:
ident stream tcp wait nobody.kmem /usr/libexec/identd identd -w -t60 -e -N
This I believe will fix this problem.
Neil.
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