also sprach Ethan Benson (on Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:45:29AM -0800): > identd is for the admin RUNNING the identd, not for the admin making > identd requests, if one of your users is abusing someones network in > some way (attempting to send spam, causing trouble on some irc network > etc) the admin of the affected site will contact you (the admin of > your site) and inform you of a troublesome user, he can then supply > log snippets relevant to the alleged transgressions, complete with > ident responses from your machines, if you configured your identd not > to lie, and not to allow your users to make it lie you will most > likely have an accurate pointer to the troublemaker so you can proceed > to lart them. configure process accounting and use ntp to keep the time accurate. then when someone tells you of an abuse on whatever day at whatever time, you can immediately tell who that was. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck -- perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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