[tor-talk] No Ident response on IRC when using Tor

[Tim Wilde]

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On 5/24/2012 12:35 PM, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> wrote:
> Thank you for replying. It shouldn't be related to OFTC.
> 
> I get "No Ident response" from any IRC service I tried when I use
> Tor, but without Tor I do.
> 
> I later checked if the reduced exit policy could be responsible
> for that. Ident uses port 113 and it's not included in the reduced
> exit policy, but that might be not the problem.
> 
> I don't know since when the reduced exit policy is in place, but I 
> edited the config (torrc) to use only "wau" as exit. It allows
> almost any port, according to Atlas.

The ident request involves the IRC server initiating a connection back
to the IP you are connecting from and requesting ident information.
It doesn't matter what exit you use, this will never work for a Tor
server, as it won't have any information to return.  This is simply
something that is expected when using Tor, and is unrelated to the
disconnect message in your original post.  It's rare (if it happens at
all) for an IRC server to refuse clients based on a lack of ident
response.

Regards,
Tim

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