XChat should (optionally) open the identd port via UPnP

[Ken Sharp]

Binary package hint: xchat

XChat listens and responds to identd messages from IRC servers, but doesn't bother opening a port on the router to allow the response to be sent. Doing so would speed up connection times to IRC servers. The port could then be closed as it does not need to remain open. This should, of course, be a configurable option.

Configuring the open port on the router manually isn't very helpful where multiple IRC users exist on the same network, DHCP is active, or an IRC user may change computers (laptop to desktop, for example).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xchat 2.8.8-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 11 13:22:50 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xchat
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xchat

[Aminda Suomalainen (mikaela)]

I think this is invalid as ident port is 113 and on Linux including Ubuntu you must be root in order to listen on port 113. The identd in XChat only works on Windows as far as I am aware.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Things have changed significantly since this was logged, as usual.