At 02:08 PM 2/15/2003, Jon Fullmer wrote:
Possibly inetd, or you're using tcp wrappers and it's doing it.That certainly could be. I'm using inetd 1.2. I didn't see any mention of IDENT in the inetd documentation or manpages. There's nothing in the /etc/inetd.conf file. I realize this isn't the "inetd" mailing list, but does anyone know how one would disable this in inetd?
I'd start with the man pages and related for both.
xinetd does do ident if you don't instruct it otherwise.
I also have found it useful to apply a filter (iptables/ipchains/etc.) into my servers so that any attempt to send a packet to an ident port results in (a) a report so I can track down and kill the thing and (b) a reject (ICMP) message to the sender. That squelches any program which tries to use ident, and allows me to find and fix it.
