Ident server problem
 

i got a problem with ident. As you know, some services as IRC want an ident response from the client. so here is the topo :
I got a private network at home with a linux comp acting as server. I installed a couple ident deamon to test them. When i tried to connect (for example IRC) from my linux server, the ident was working.
But when i try to connect IRC with one comp inside my private network, there is no ident response.
Is there a way to have linux answering the ident request for his hosts ?

thanks a lot for any help :)

So you've got a linux box that connects the rest of you LAN out onto the internet, and you want to get ident requests to pass through the linux server to a client on the network - am I getting the right idea?

If this is the case then I think you'd need to port forward, however this will only work for a single host on your network as I don't see how you can setup forwarding rules for multiple hosts.(if you see what I mean - a rule just forwards a port to a specific host) This might also break some things one the server as all ident requests going the server will be forwarded by your rule...

cheers

Jamie...

yeah you are getting the right idea. It is exactly that.
But i found an other solution to solve the problem, beside the port forwarding.
I found a small programm called nullidentd who just answer the identd request for any hosts. It answers the same things everytime he get a request on port 113, even if the request is for an host in the private network beind the server
the programm URL : http://www.tildeslash.org/nullidentd.html


thanks a lot for your help anyway