[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Tobias) wrote on 13.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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). You are somewhat confused here. The identd service is called from the _other_ end of the connection (to find out who sits on your end). If you actually do have a econd service called just as often, then either the ident connections are local (both ends on your machine), or else the second service is some sort of forwarder (like a web proxy), so every time it is called, it calls out to somewhere else, and that somewhere else then does an ident query. > Using "nowait.120" is of course a solution but it is probably better > to find the application that is causing the problem. It is not clear that there is a problem, other than heavy use. There may be, of course, such as ident queries actually causing more ident queries, but we don't know yet if something like that happens. MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
