Re: intermittent problems with ident authentication

Anybody?

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Ben wrote:

> I have some scripts that connect to my 8.2 postgres server using ident 
> authentication, and maybe ~10% of the time, authentication fails like so:
>
> 2008-05-20 00:22:54 UTC LOG:  invalidly formatted response from Ident server: 
> "49205 , 5432 : ERROR :dba
>         "
>
> xinetd's logs show normal auth activity at these times. This is on CentOS 
> 5.1. Has anybody else seen anything like this? Or even better, figured out 
> what was going on?