I use midentd at home,you can find it a freshmeat
its a fake ident server ,you can use it if you are behind a firewall
then will get on irc , without the ~ before your nick
you may need something like that
- Craig
Oceania Computer Services { [EMAIL PROTECTED] }
"Chevron 7 Encoded � Stargate SG-1"
----- Original Message -----
From: ghoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: [SLUG] irc help.
> hi
>
> situation-
> Mandrake 7.1 behind a win98se ICS connection (i know i know.,)
> when running xchat i get this for pretty much ever server.
> i have heard stuff about this prob but i cant remember where.
>
> Connecting to irc.efnet.net (199.3.235.130) port 6667..
> --- Connected. Now logging in..
> --- AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
> --- AUTH :*** Checking Ident
> --- AUTH :*** No Ident response
> --- AUTH :*** Found your hostname
> --- Closing Link: 203.164.15.194 (You are not authorized to use this
server)
> --- Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
>
> Is there any way around this..
> thanks
> alex
>
>
>
> btw i was just playing around with xscreensaver and there is one saver
caller
> sonar it plots lil planes on a sonar but one option is to set it to plot
pinged
> hosts but to do this i have to setuid it so it an acess raw ICMP
funtions.. this
> may be a stupid Q but what does this actually do and how is it done. If i
man
> it i only get a programers refrence which talks about setting the
effective
> userid of somthing but this seems to me to be such a gaping security flaw
it
> dosent make sence so it is not what i think it is..
>
>
>
>
> When life is hard to stand try kneeling.
>
> I never met a calorie i didn't like ;-)
>
>
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