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Article #1303Re: fingerd allows third party fingers
From: Greg Earle
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1988 09:27
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1988 09:27
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Allowing third party `finger's also allows one to `reach around' a site
that has a gateway with ipforwarding turned off. Admittedly, one has
to know something about the layout of the network behind the curtain
(where Carol Merrill is now standing (^: ), but hey, Mr. Morris has taught
us a thing (fing?) or two about fingerd ...
On the other hand, I've found 3rd party fingers to come in really useful
at times. Just for fun, as a cheap way of finding out whether a Sun
Tech Support Engineer was at the Los Angeles office before I reached for
the phone, I'd do
finger @losangeles@mountainviewgateway@sun.com
from a JPL machine (in a past life). Fun!
(N.B. names of internal Sun machines above are wrong, for obvious reasons ... )
--
Greg Earle earle@Sun.COM
Sun Microsystems poseur!earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV
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