<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >( IDENT ) - IRC won't work properly for MASQed IRC users. Why?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Frequently Asked Questions" HREF="faq.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="( SAMBA ) - Microsoft File and Print Sharing and Microsoft Domain clients don't work through IP Masq!" HREF="samba.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="( IRC DCC ) - mIRC doesn't work with DCC Sends" HREF="irc-dcc.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="samba.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 7. Frequently Asked Questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="irc-dcc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="IDENT" ></A >7.26. ( IDENT ) - IRC won't work properly for MASQed IRC users. Why?</H1 ><P >The main possible reason is because most common Linux distribution's IDENT or "Identity" servers can't deal with IP Masqueraded links. No worries though, there are IDENTs out there that will work.</P ><P >Installing this software is beyond the scope of this HOWTO but each tool has its own documentation. Here are some of the URLs: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/oidentd/?topic_id=150" TARGET="_top" >Oident</A > is a favorite IDENT server for MASQ users.</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/midentd/?topic_id=24" TARGET="_top" >Mident</A > is another popular IDENT server.</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://http://home.indyramp.net/lists/masq/insecurity.net/sidentd.gz" TARGET="_top" >Sident</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/daemons/" TARGET="_top" >Other Idents</A ></P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P >Please note that some Internet IRC servers still won't allow multiple connections from the same host even if they get Ident info and the users are different though. Complain to the remote sys admin. :-)</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="samba.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="irc-dcc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >( SAMBA ) - Microsoft File and Print Sharing and Microsoft Domain clients don't work through IP Masq!</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="faq.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >( IRC DCC ) - mIRC doesn't work with DCC Sends</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >