identd?

[Jomboni]

What exactly is this? I have it installed, but I tried going on dalnet today and it said I needed identd installed... I tried running it and it just sat there. I looked at the man page but at this point, man pages may as well be written in Latin... :(

[Strogian]

I don't know what it is exactly, but it is required for many IRC servers. If you're running behind some sort of firewall, you may need to open TCP port 113 to let it through.

[Jomboni]

I did install the default firewall settings with RH 7.2 - medium security. Maybe it's blocked by that. Any idea how I'd fix that?

[Pras]

identd is the auth server - so that other servers/computers can see your user information. Not sure about RH's firewall stuff though. After searching on the internet, I found that a utility called 'lokkit' allows you to configure the firewall. Install this and see if it helps. Strogian is right, you need 113 open for irc. What I find is a good strategy is to unblock the port on my firewall, but only run the auth daemon when I go on irc. I then shut it off afterwards. It's a little bit more secure than having it run always.

[Jomboni]

Awesome. Lokkit was already installed, so I ran it and allowed access to port 113 and it worked :)