On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:46:12PM +0530, Strykar wrote: > > From: Theo de Raadt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 3:39 AM > > To: Strykar > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: New alternative identd port question > > > > Already I can tell you that our identd server is safer to run. Really. > > > > Just re-read the identd source and I agree. > Using -U and ~/.ident would work locally, but not for users behind a router > doing NAT. > A single static response to ident requests is all that's needed and while > oident can do this for a NAT network, it's overkill. Maybe I'm one of the > few who feel this because of having archaic P-200's and the likes as > routers. > > I'll try to hack the stock ident server to do this and submit a patch.
FWIW, net/oidentd already has this functionality.
