Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:21:56PM -0700, Jack Byers wrote:
> > Hal Burgiss and also i think Tom Burke presented to this list their
> > versions of a firewall script originally coming from the nerdherd
> > group.
> >
> > I have been trying to fully grok what those scripts do.
> >
> > My main question concerns the nerdherd readme from their downloaded
> > tar file, wherein they include a replacement for identd with name
> > midentd
> >
> > said to be necessary when using this firewall script.
> >
> > yet neither the script from Burgiss or from Burke seem to discuss
> > this at all.
> >
> > is midentd needed or not?
>
> Don't recall this readme or this comment, sorry. I can tell you it is
> not necessary with the one I posted, since I use the identd provided
> with RH, and no problems. There are various identd implentations. Not
> real familiar with this one, but I suspect it is one that maybe has
> some additional features (maybe security related?).
If it is the one I am thinking about midentd (masq identd) is the version
that will always reply with a hardcoded username@machinename reply so
that you can connect through a firewall and get into a service that will
require the ident reply. I waded into this a couple of years ago long
when I knew even less than I know now. As a newbie the whole thing ate
my lunch so I try and forget it and here it has come up twice in two
days. I wonder if I am supposed to be learning about this stuff too.
I do use masqerading but have not had to mess with the identd stuff for
quite some time.
I have not needed this since Sprynet got bought by
mci/aol/mindspring/earthlink.
Bret
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