[olug] irc behind pmfirewall

[Nick Walter]

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
http://www.yak.net/fqa/56.html 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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