On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Ben Leibig wrote: > The ident thing that lets you see the full address of players entering the mud What is this supposed to mean? > how meny players have whats needed on their end. Is this a question, or a statement? Anyone who's running an ident daemon. Telnet to port 113 of a computer and see if it answers. If it does, an identd is being run. > IE how often does it work Whenever it's running and you have the correct information. > i dont wanna take the time to set it up if it only works every once in > a while. BUt if it generaly works it might be worth looking at. It always works. Do you expect it to just not answer or something? Linux has it on by default. SunOS does not, but it can be easily enabled. In other words, about 75-80% of the people who visit your MUD will have an identd running or be able to run one. Dynamic IP accounts MUST add an identd to the system, which are found everywhere (for IRC, usually). > IF > anyone knows about it and could let me know that would be helpful. > Try the Internet Requests for Comments (RFC's). Go to Yahoo, search for "RFC". Look for the RFC list, then choose the RFC index. Once it's loaded, search for the word "identification" (search by browser, not web page). Then click on the RFC number nearby. It will tell you the implementation of identd as used on all UNIX systems. Be aware that the RFC suggests waiting for *at least* 30 seconds to accomadate network lag. During that time, CircleMUD will not be able to log on new users. If you plan on running a busy MUD, either find a way around this or don't use an identd. You must also write the ident function yourself. It's pretty easy, but you have to be prepared to handle all the errors correctly (i.e., only throw someone off if he refuses to identify himself). There are a lot of possible responses: connect refused, user hidden, no user present on that port, and so on. Only in the last two cases should you (normally) throw users off, as that indicates that you've got someone up to no good on the other side. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Barid Bel Medar icarus@berkshire.net Knights of the Cosmos Shayol Ghul Resort and Health Spa ------------------------------------------------------------------ "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." - English Professor, Ohio University ------------------------------------------------------------------
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