Thread: intermittent problems with ident authentication

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?

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?