Re: Strange log ...

B.W. McAdams (brendan@plexmedia.com)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:42:57 -0400

Thats an IRC server connecting back to your box and checking the identity of
one of your users logging into it.
6668 is an alternate IRC port (6667 being standard port)
That's standard practice for most IRC servers to do an IDENT check.

Brendan

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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Nick wrote:
This is normal or ... ?




Aug  8 23:25:56 xover identd[32534]: Connection from
hackermagnet.iadfw.net
Aug  8 23:25:56 xover identd[32534]: from: 206.66.12.230 (
hackermagnet.iadfw.net ) for: 1811, 6668


It is repeated several time ......


Thank you in advance for the reply


Nick


nick@ns-x.com
root@ns-x.com




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