Do I need portmap? also Q on identd

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, David Kramer wrote:
>And will irc still work if I have it return uid instead of name?

Try and see. :) I probably will.
Our firewall at work blocks the identd requests from a server
I frequent, and what happens is I have to wait 90 seconds for
that ident request to time out. I'm not sure how larger networks
like efnet or uunet deal with it, though.

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