On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Greg Morgan wrote:
> I believe you have to get the Identd module, and add it to your disk.
> There has been lots of abuse from the @home network and other highspeed
> services. The abuse comes from improperly configured wingate boxes that
> become havens for spammers and other abusers. So what the sysadmins
> started doing on the IRC servers is loginning who was connecting. To do
> this, they querry and Ident service. mIRC and the like have an Ident
> service. However, the IRC servers can't see it behind the LEAF
> firewall. So now you add the Identd service on the LEAF box and the IRC
> servers are happy. I saw some instructions on lrp.c0wz.com. You may
> want to search for Ident in the mail archieves.
A general comment: ident is designed for multi-user systems. Since you
are free to lie to the ident client (irc server), the only thing they can
fairly use that information to do is to inform you of it when they
don't like the behavior of someone on your system. Then you can track
down who was misbehaving. Of course, they are free to do whatever they
want with it, including ignoring it, but using it in their communications
with abusers' sysadmins is the most fair thing to do with it.
oidentd can be configured to respond with a specific id string for each
different masqed ip connection you might make, so it is ideal for a LEAF
firewall.
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