Am I to presume you're a threat? Apparently you're not aware of the current state of the internet. Spam is everywhere. I say no more, troll.

Hwy: Why? Because it's a bit of a useless clutter. Why do you see no logical reason and what does this have to do with UDP? munky: No, the RFC says nothing about a source port. I'm not quite sure if this is better served as a response to me or as a response to corrupt. ;-) P.S. You're not clever by ...

Actually, ev1.net is known as the up and coming, quite large parent company of Rackshack.net, a ghetto basement *dedicated server* facility. They are not some hole in the wall, even though Rackshack basically is. EV1.Net sponsored major College Football bowl games this year.

If you don't mind, I wasn't exactly requesting a reply from a newbie, but ah, I suppose I shouldn't expect anything less. No, EFNet servers (what exactly are 'EFNet servers'?) do not send ident requests from port 113, they send ident requests destined for port 113. What exactly does this have to do ...

For a linux environment, identd is required to sustain somewhat of an elongated access period, to allow different users to be differentiated from their peers. However, this also proposes several information disclosure threats with the most popular identd servers, and there is no way to limit connect...