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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!olsenc From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Identd looping? Date: 11 Mar 1996 09:31:29 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4i0rth$om@nntp5.u.washington.edu> References: <Dn6KIn.7nA@ritz.mordor.com> <DnD7ry.M0C@ritz.mordor.com> <4homlq$lvi@news.aros.net> <31435A88.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak.ee.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: olsenc In article <31435A88.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >Dave Andersen wrote: >> basis until we disabled identd. I was kinda hoping our FreeBSD boxes >> wouldn't succumb to it, since we're opening up one for shell accounts now. > >Well, I'd say that it doesn't have much choice about suffering from the >same bugs in identd.. ;-) > >Another ISP (CalWEB) is having similar problems and I've asked them if >they can use gdb's `attach' command to glom onto the identd next time >it's looping and try to figure out what's going on. >-- >- Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project I've used identd before with FreeBSD w/o any problems. One thing to look out for is to avoid putting a TCP wrapper around identd in /etc/inetd.conf when you set tcpd to always attempt an ident lookup. This _definitely_ causes some unwanted looping :) -Clint