Re: NoCatSplash 0.92 released

> Is this a piece of client-side software or is this something that can
> be run on the gateway?

Hi!

Usually, it is client side. That was before masquerading became that 
popular. Now it is needed on the gateway. I am not sure if anyone ever 
implemented this, but all the information is there on the gateway, so a 
identp-daemon should be possible. However, idenp is just one way (which 
is tested and used all over the world at least ;-). If there other ways 
to solve the problem that those running the masq gateway don't want to 
be responsible of everything users do, I would be really interested in 
those, too.

There are identd-daemons that send the hostname of the masq'ed machine 
as a reply on ident-requests (midentd, nidentd). This might help, and 
nocat would just have to update the identd-config-file with the 
(dynamically) set ip's and hostnames.

oidentd deamon: http://dev.ojnk.net/

However, I am not really sure about these existing solutions. Often, 
people just worry about getting the ident-requests through the firewall 
and have the identd running on the masqued clients. Also, they often 
want to give as few info as possible. On the other hand, if we are 
running a gateway used by others, we want to make sure that the 
identity can be found, even if there is no identd on the server, so we 
have to catch requests on the gateway and answer with the (maybe 
hashed) hostname/ip/user. I will try to find out more on this...

CU Lars.