Re: Players IP Addresses

From: Robert Sinland (rsinland@ERSKINE.POLARISTEL.NET)
Date: 07/17/97


Sammy wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, <Pure Krome> wrote:
>
> > G'Day All.
> >     one of my players has an IP address of aurora.cc.monash.com.au.
> > Now, a mate of his logged on with the same IP address. Is there ANY
> > way of determining that they are different people?
> > It will happen for most universities (the only example i can think of
> > right now).
>
> You may be able to get the usernames of the players involved.  Try
> telnetting to port 113 of that site.  If it doesn't refuse the connection,
> you can get their usernames while they're logged in, either with the ident
> patch, or manually entering the port pairs.
>
> Sam
   After having installed the ident patch I get this in my syslogs, and
have yet to get any new player info.
Would this more likly be a problem on the server the mud runs on, or my
ident configuration?

Thu Jul 17 21:10:07 :: Ident error from fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca:
"INVALID-PORT"
RS


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