You're right of course. I should have been more precise. There are two other services involved: squid as a standalone server and http-gw on the firewall and both call ident for each www request.
That makes up for quite some traffic given that one www site is build by a lot of www requests. Thanks anyway, Peter. Later Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 >---------- >Von: Peter Tobias[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Juni 1997 12:53 >An: Michael Meskes >Cc: Die Adresse des Empf�ngers ist unbekannt. >Betreff: Re: inetd question > >On Jun 13, Michael Meskes wrote: >> Thanks Peter. >> >> I guess it's the ident service. So I try nowait.120 and see what >> happens. > >Of course it is the ident service (that's what the error message of >inetd said). But the ident service is not a service that is used >alone. You have an application/service which is called as often >as the ident service. You should have a look at this application. >Your problem could also be an entry in hosts.allow or hosts.deny. >If you use a username ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) there the tcp_wrapper will do an >ident/auth lookup for that service (or for all services if the ALL >keyword has been used). > >Using "nowait.120" is of course a solution but it is probably better >to find the application that is causing the problem. > > >Thanks, > >Peter > >-- >Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 >3C > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
