On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Just a shot in the dark - how is your firewall handling ident requests?
> Are you accepting them on the firewall? If so, what may be happening is
> that the web site is asking the firewall who is connecting. If you are
> connecting from the firewall, it returns a valid reply, but with the
> standard ident, if you are connecting through the fire wall, it will
> return a message that says the process making the connection doesn't
> exist, or no user owns the process making the connection. If you reject
> the ident connections, you don't usualy have a problem. (don't use deny,
> unless you want a delay while the connection times out.)
>
That's an interesting theory -- I use midentd which works well with
masquerading and as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not seeing the
problem...
-Tom
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