Howdy, gotta strange problem with my setup. Since my comp's are behind NATted adsl-router I have forwarded port 113 to my debian (192.168.1.97) and I'm running oidentd (2.0.7) on it. Since all my irc-connection are being ran from this, the auth should work. Also I need a static ident-respons for one of my other comp's, therefore I'm using oidentd with the -r option so it should answer MYSTRING for that comp. But all of the sudden there's something broken with ident-reply's.

From /etc/inetd.conf:

This should answer with MYSTRING if the connection doesn't origin from debian, for example a irc-session. Problem is, debian answer's every auth with MYSTRING. For example if a user "Test" connect's to IRCNet it get's a ident "MYSTRING@my.publicdomain.com and not the USER@my.publicdomain.com it should get. When I took a look in syslog I found this:

If i disable "-rMYSTRING" and run "telnet 192.168.1.97 auth" I get "ERROR : NO-USER" wich is correct, and in this case the irc-session's get their right ident's.

To me it looks like oidentd cannot get the info from /proc/net/tcp but that's just me, a linux-newbie?

I've been doing google for two days straight now, all I found was
a oidentd-page in freshmeat where one user had similar problem, but no solution.

Any ideas anyone?

I had the same issue as you, after running oidentd in debug mode i noticed that it tried to read from /proc/net/ip_conntrack (which it hadn't rights to do) after giving it +r there it worked fine.

I don't know if this is the proper way, but it fixed my prob