The Ident protocol (Identification Protocol, often just ident) is an application-layer protocol specified in RFC 1413. Given a pair of TCP port numbers corresponding to an existing connection, an Ident server returns a short string that identifies the owner of that connection on the server’s host.
The Ident protocol (Identification Protocol, often just ident) is an application-layer protocol specified in RFC 1413. Given a pair of TCP port numbers corresponding to an existing connection, an Ident server returns a short string that identifies the owner of that connection on the server’s host.
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