R. Brett Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When reviewing my messages log I seem to get the following errors when
> people check their mail and certain services:
>
> Jan 11 06:19:31 zoom5208 identd[3606]: Returned: 63534 , 110 : NO-USER
> Jan 11 06:19:34 zoom5208 identd[3607]: from: 205.228.208.11 (ares.soonernet.com)
>for: 63535, 110
Your identd does not know about masq'd connections routing through your
machine. It looks in its local socket table (netstat -tn) and finds no
connection open from your masq box, so it tells the remote host that it
has no such connection.
However, consider the issue this way: Suppose your identd *did* know
about masq'd connections? To which user should it attribute the
connection? It is only forwarding the connection from one of your local
LAN machines. How would it know what username to serve? I don't think
there's any way it could know.
That being said, aren't there other identd servers available for Linux?
I seem to remember someone mentioning something called "midentd", but I
don't know what that is.
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