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-The Ident protocol
is a simple protocol where
a remote machine
can request the username or a cookie uniquely identifying a local user associated with creating
a [TCP] connect for use in reporting abuse
.
It's used a lot on
[IRC
] Networks, but
is mostly deprecated now that users tend to have one machine per user. The Ident protocol
also doesn't transverse [NAT] very well due to the fact that ports are rewritten, and it's difficult to tell which host the ident request should go to
.
+[IDENT]
is a simple protocol by which
a server
can request the username (
or a cookie uniquely identifying a local user)
associated with a client machine's
[TCP] connection
. It uses
[Port
] 113 and
is sometimes
also called AUTH
.
-The Ident
protocol uses
port 113
, and
is sometimes called "auth"
.
+The [IDENT]
protocol was intended to report abuse in times when users generally only had unprivileged accounts on a centrally administrated host. It has become useless now that everyone is their own [PC]'s administrator. It also doesn't transverse [NAT] very well due to
port rewriting which makes it hard to tell which host the [IDENT] request is addressed to. Therefore it is mostly deprecated now
, even though it
is still in use on many [IRC] networks
.
