[olug] irc behind pmfirewall

Adam Lassek alassek at techie.com
Sun Jul 29 23:31:38 UTC 2001


Hmm, I followed the instructions on that site and it seemed to work but still no dice. What type of output does a normal ident connection look for?

-----Original Message-----
From: "Nick Walter" <waltern at iivip.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:56:46 -0500
To:  <olug at bstc.net>
Subject: RE: [olug] irc behind pmfirewall


> The problem with identd connections and firewalls is that that the identd
> connection originates outside your firewall and attempts to come inside.  A
> sensibly configured firewall will disallow such a connection.  If you are
> using masquerading, all your connections appear to come from your firewall,
> so the remote server will attempt to make an auth connection directly to
> your firewall.  Again, a sensibly configured firewall will probably ignore
> or disallow such an attempt.
> 
> To work-around this problem with ip masquerading, your best bet might be to
> set up a dummy identd server on your firewall.  Check out
>  <A HREF="http://www.yak.net/fqa/56.html" TARGET="_new"><FONT COLOR="BLUE">http://www.yak.net/fqa/56.html</font></a> for some ideas.
> 
> -Nick Walter
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Lassek [mailto:alassek at techie.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:48 AM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: [olug] irc behind pmfirewall
> 
> 
> Ever since I set up a firewall running pmfirewall, IRC
> has completely stopped working for any server that requires an IDENT
> connection. (Apparently there are too many people abusing their connections
> with @Home -- go figure :-/)
> Anyway, what do I need to do to get auth connections to be properly
> masqueraded?
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