Re: identd + SOCKS

[Nicolas Bougues <nbougues@axialys.net>]

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:59:10PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> First, some ascii "art":
> 
>  ------------          -------------                   ----------
> |            |        | SOCKS proxy |                 |   IRC    |
> | IRC client |--------|     and     |----------/  /---|  server  |
> |            |        |   identd    |                 |          | 
>  ------------          -------------                   ----------
> 
> Does anyone know a solution that would allow the IRC server to
> get an ident reply of the client's IP number instead of the
> SOCKS server username, when the client connects via the SOCKS
> server?
> 

This would require some kind of cooperation between the SOCKS proxy (which 
knows the real identity of the IRC client) and the identd (which gets 
queried back on a a different connection by the IRC server).

I've never seen any such thing.

-- 
Nicolas BOUGUES