Is ident enabled by default for readers

[Russ Allbery]

William F Maton <wmaton at ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca> writes:

> I've been doing some testing with our yet-to-be-deployed firewall, when
> I noticed something strange:  It seems that my news server (INN 2.4.1 on
> linux) is trying to connect to client hosts on the ident port (113). The
> odd thing is that I could have sworn that I didn't enable ident auth
> with nnrpd in readers.conf, so I'm wondering what I've missed....

Not sure; INN doesn't use ident unless you specifically ask for it.  Are
you running something under tcpwrappers, perhaps?

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