Re: IDENT and IPv6 (was Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba.conf

Hi,

The ident server we currently use is pidentd 3.0.16
from :
http://www.lysator.liu.se/ or
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/servers

I am looking to see if Solaris has an ident server but have not
found it.

Gan

At 8:21 pm +0100 2003/12/6, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:09:25PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>  [ moved to -hackers ]
>>
>>  Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>>  >> We are also wonder if there is a version of Ident server
>>  >> that the PostgreSQL community knows that will work
>>  >> with IPv6.
>>
>>  > That is the big question.  I would think Solaris ships with one, but
>>  > maybe not.  Is 7.4/Solaris/ident not a workable combination?  Folks?
>>
>>  Has anyone tested our Ident support under IPv6 on *any* OS?
>>
>>  Right offhand I don't see anything in the RFC 1413 protocol that would
>>  break in moving from IPv4 to IPv6, but that doesn't mean there isn't
>>  anything.  One issue that catches my eye is that RFC 1413 assumes that
>>  "port number" is a unique identifier of a connection within a particular
>>  host; that assumption might be shaky in a system that's got multiple IP
>>  addresses.  (In particular I wonder whether IPv4 and IPv6 will share a
>>  common port number address space on a system handling both ...)
>
>The tcp connection is two ip/port combinations.  The ident
>connection should use the same ip address as the other end
>connected too, and says which port numbers, so you know the combination.
>
>I haven't tried it ident using postgresql, but I did for other
>things and I know it works there.
>
>
>Kurt


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