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oidentd (an identd daemon)
-oidentd is an ident (rfc1413 compliant) daemon that runs on Linux, Darwin,
-FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Solaris. oidentd can handle IP masqueraded/NAT
-connections on Linux, Darwin, FreeBSD (ipf only), OpenBSD and NetBSD.
-oidentd has a flexible mechanism for specifying ident responses. Users can
-be granted permission to specify their own ident responses. Responses can
-be specified according to host and port pairs.
+Oidentd is an ident daemon (rfc1413) that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
+and Solaris 2.x. Oidentd supports most features of pidentd plus more. Most
+notably, oidentd allows users to specify the identd response that the server
+will output when a successful lookup is completed. Oidentd supports IP
+masqueraded connections on Linux, and is able to forward requests to hosts
+that masq through the host on which oidentd runs.
+
+This is a fork of the ojnk oidentd released in 2006