4 Maintainer: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
5 Build-Depends: mlib-dev (>= 2.1.0), debhelper (>= 8),
6 Standards-Version: 3.1.1
10 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
11 Provides: ident-server
12 Conflicts: ident-server
13 Description: Yet Another Ident Daemon: with NAT traversal and policy controls
14 The world doesn't need or want another ident server. But it did want one
15 with the right combination of features, so here it is.
17 YAID handles NAT usefully. On a NAT gateway, it will forward requests to
18 client hosts as necessary. On a client host, it will respond to forwarded
21 YAID has policy controls. A global file can decide how to reply to
22 particular kinds of query based on source and destination addresses and port
23 numbers, or on the user identified. It can delegate the decision to the
24 user in question, in a controlled way. It can anonymize the response in
25 various ways, keeping track of the real answer in its log.
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