On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Ivan Ivanovic wrote: > On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts > from various sites... > What (common) application needs this port?
irc server make ident connections to clients. squid can use ident for authorization. sendmail sometimes uses ident. maybe you want to read rfc1413. i'd turn auth off for security reasons if your box has a direct connection to internet. from rfc1413: An Identification server may reveal information about users, entities, objects or processes which might normally be considered private. An Identification server provides service which is a rough analog of the CallerID services provided by some phone companies and many of the same privacy considerations and arguments that apply to the CallerID service apply to Identification. If you wouldn't run a "finger" server due to privacy considerations you may not want to run this protocol. seb
