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Article #1291Re: fingerd allows third party fingers
From: Tad Guy
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 04:27
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 04:27
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In article <1477@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, leres@ace (Craig Leres) writes: > As distributed, fingerd allows third party fingers. This makes > it impossible for sites who wish to syslog remote finger > requests to log original site. > % finger @arpa@ucbvax > Don't allow third party fingers.... I consider this a feature, not a bug. Several times I've depended on this behavior to determine if another site was really down or if the Internet routes were being screwy (can you guess which it usually was?). I expect others have found this useful as well. I'd suggest against others disabling it... ...tad -- Tad Guy <tadguy@cs.odu.edu> Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!xanth!cs.odu.edu!tadguy From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: fingerd allows third party fingers Summary: it's a feature... Message-ID: <6845@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 15 Dec 88 04:27:42 GMT References: <1477@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@xanth.cs.odu.edu Reply-To: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)