How do I establish a connection where the localhost IP are both in the
"Local Address" and "Foreign Address" columns of netstat ?
Eg.,
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[r...@j8 xinetd.d]# netstat -A inet -n
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
State
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.8:57246 192.168.1.8:6667
ESTABLISHED
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(where "192.168.1.8" is my localhost's IP address).
The reason I want to do this is because I want to test my authd (ident
server) after installing the package in Fedora 13.
"/usr/share/doc/authd-1.4.3/README.html" says:
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Testing
2. Run "netstat -A inet -n" and find an established tcp
connection.
3. Input the two ports prefixed with colons as single command line
argument (no whitespace unless the entire pair is enclosed in
quotes for the command line parser), in the same order,
separated by a comma. Example:
$ /usr/sbin/in.inetd 33201,6667
4. Execute "telnet localhost auth" and type the two ports separated
by a comma. The two ports selected must have a foreign address
of localhost, or 127.0.0.1 as well as a matching local address.
If they do not, a NO-USER error will be returned.
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But I can't seem to get a port pair for localhost.
Do I need to run my own local IRC server ? and then connect to my local
IRC server with an IRC client ?
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