Difference between revisions of "Ident"
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"The Ident Protocol, specified in RFC 1413, is an Internet protocol that helps identify the user of a particular TCP connection. One popular daemon program for providing the ident service is identd." Wikipedia | "The Ident Protocol, specified in RFC 1413, is an Internet protocol that helps identify the user of a particular TCP connection. One popular daemon program for providing the ident service is identd." Wikipedia | ||
| − | What this means for 99% of you, is that if you have a ~beside your username in your hostmask on irc, you do not have an ident server on the machine you are connecting from, otherwise, you do. | + | What this means for 99% of you, is that if you have a ~ beside your username in your hostmask on irc, you do not have an ident server on the machine you are connecting from, otherwise, you do. |
Latest revision as of 01:58, 27 April 2012
"The Ident Protocol, specified in RFC 1413, is an Internet protocol that helps identify the user of a particular TCP connection. One popular daemon program for providing the ident service is identd." Wikipedia
What this means for 99% of you, is that if you have a ~ beside your username in your hostmask on irc, you do not have an ident server on the machine you are connecting from, otherwise, you do.
