Ident / Reverse DNS Lookup
 

I'm having some problems on the client side of Ident. Servers are unable to run a reverse dns lookup on my hostname, so I can't get on many IRC servers and some ssh daemons reject me. I don't have a registered hostname, so I made something up during the Debian config. Anyone have any ideas as to what my problem is? I am using DHCP via a router and here is some more info:

in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 babylon
192.168.1.100 localhost


/etc/inetd.conf:
ident2 stream tcp wait identd /usr/sbin/ident2 ident2


/etc/hostname:

babylon.philo


IRC Errors:

-:- Unable to connect to port 6667 of server irc.gamesurge.net: Address family not supported by protocol

If I /quit during connect it gives my fake host:
-:- SignOff: <Nickname (registered yet> asdf@babylon.philo <Nickname has no reason)



Thanks, any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Aha..
 

After a lot of messing around, I think I have it figured out. There were 2 problems:

My router wasn't forwarding ident requests and the IRC server was using ipv4.
I set up ident2 and connected to an ipv6 server (or ipv4 using the IP address) and everything is working fine.