Thanks and Happy New Year to you too!!!! you can use a special version of identd for masq hosts........or if using ipchains , you can set it to REJECT and this should be enough for the requesting server as its an answer and overcome this problem......... search http://www.freshmeat.net for ident and look at them all .......... *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 30/12/99 at 19:48 Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: >On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > > > And many others rules on IP-Masquerade-HOWTO. > > Thanks! > >Ident is a service that must be installed. Nothing ipchains can do about >it.. I suggest you install it on the machine that does the masquerade.. > >It's already running on Linux and windows,but from ouside my network no one >can go in,like the IRC server that asks for identd.The point is how can i >make an server like IRC go into my internal network and check for identd. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.