what exactly is happening when there is an ident request at port 113?

[zskillz]

I'm planning on writing a program that will accecpt all incoming material on port 113 and return information automatically. However, the problem is that I really have no idea what even happens when you receive a request via the port. I have searched around and could not find any answers that were helpful.

can anyone here point me in the right direction?

thx
-Z

[zskillz]

now i know there are some bright people here who know the answer to this question

-Z

[DVNT1]

Here's a few links that might help...

http://irc.m0ss.com/tutorial36.htm

ftp://ftp.ost.eltele.no/pub/networking/rfc/rfc0931.txt

ftp://ftp.ost.eltele.no/pub/networking/rfc/rfc1413.txt

This guy has an ident prog he wrote with the source downloadable too... http://www.borg.com/~chuck/programs.htm

EDIT - added another link with source... http://sourceforge.net/projects/identd/

[This message has been edited by DVNT1 (edited 07-16-2001).]

[frnkzks]

What is the default purpose of port 113? What are you using it for?

[zskillz]

well, it turns out that i was going to write a simple little proggie to process requests for ident on port 113 for irc (so i could run multiple pc's behind the firewall), but the new server that we go to since effnet was smoked doesn't even do an ident check.

i'm still curious though... and I know i'll write it soon anyway

thx DV
-Z