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Article #1297Re: fingerd allows third party fingers
From: Dave Lawrence
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 16:43
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 16:43
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tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) wrote:
>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
I appreciate it too ... if I'm on a machine that doesn't have as complete
a host table as another machine I know, then I can usually effectively
use the other machine to get what I want to know.
My question is this: why would a site want to log remote finger requests?
Dave
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