trouble configuring Postgres with Identd authentication

Tonight I tinkered with getting identd authentication working
with Postgres 7.0.2. It appeared to accept my configuration, but the
connections were failing when it
seemed they shouldn't. The sequence looked like this:

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elkhorn(at)ns elkhorn> psql -d elkhorn -u
psql: Warning: The -u option is deprecated. Use -U.
Username: elkhorn
Password:
psql: IDENT authentication failed for user 'elkhorn'
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the password was correct, and the user and database named elkhorn appear
on the postgres server.

So from there I tried to verify that identd on nollie was working as
expected. Based some docs I found, I tried a basic raw identd connection:
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bash-2.04$ telnet nollie 113
Trying 208.196.32.199...
Connected to nollie.summersault.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
3342 , 23
3342 , 23 : ERROR : NO-USER
#########
I tried something similiar with the identd server and got a
similiar result:
root(at)philoxenist data]# telnet localhost 113
#########
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
23,2372
23 , 2372 : ERROR : UNKNOWN-ERROR
#############

For reference, I was using a line in pg_hbah.conf like this:
# host all 199.120.185.10 255.255.255.255 ident
sameuser

Both the host and client are running a FreeBSD 4.x

So I'm not sure what's wrong. At the moment this looks like an identd
problem rather than a Postgres issue. :) Perhaps one of you have run
into this before, though?

Thanks.

-mark

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