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Well what always reminds me that identd isn't running is trying to log onto an irc server. Fire up
BitchX.
BitchX -n mynick -c \#luni irc.debian.org
once logged on simply:
/wii mynick
will tell you what is being reported to the IRC server at least.
Herbie
--- Martin Maney <maney@two14.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:57:25AM +0000, Jonel Rienton wrote:
> >
> > you can try grc.com, it basically tests the common ports open in your box
>
> Ah, crazy old Gibson. The tests don't inspire much confidence, however,
> since the one overlap (that was clearly reported, anyhow) between the two
> sets of tests reported "stealthed" to one and merely "closed" to the other.
> And the port scan missed things, but I guess he's targeting Windows users
> and so chooses his targets.
>
> Now, if his claim to have "just figured out" how to scan all 2**16 ports at
> once - "almost instantaneously" - ever becomes more than another tabloid
> item on his port scan page...
>
> Not what I was looking for (I know the identd is running: I want to be able
> to easily check what it's reporting), but it's been a while since I was
> reminded of this old, uhm, fixture of the PC scene. Oh, all those
> exclamations!
>
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