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Eric Gisin (ericg@trance.helix.net) wrote:
: $ finger @direct.ca
: [direct.ca]
:            Thank you for connecting to Internet Direct.

: The service you attempted to connect to on this host is for the 
: internal use of Internet Direct only.  We ask that you do not 
: attempt to connect to it again.  

: All connection attempts are logged.  If unauthorized connection 
: attempts continue from a single source CERT/RCMP/CIA/Scotland Yard 
: will be informed.

: Thanks for your co-operation.

: -----
: Who do these people think they are?
: Finger is a *public* service, there is nothing "unauthorized" in using it.
: If they don't want the outside world to use it, they should just disable it.
: Would CERT even listen to Internet Direct?

: Internet Direct is a Canadian Internet provider.
: I could not do a whois on direct.ca, not being able to find the CA server.

: 	Eric Gisin (now an international Internet subversive), ericg@helix.net


Try connecting to the Internet provider hq.jcic.org.  Apparently one of the
students here at JHU has an account there and tried to telnet to it.  Since
we are not running identd on all of our systems (too much overhead on some
systems, not supported on others, some of the systems are PCs or Macs, etc),
the local sysadmins got back flames about our "illegal telnet access" from
their sysadmin Daniel Hollis.  You get a form letter response if you make
any tcp/ip connection to his system.  When I asked (very politely) for a copy
of identd to run on my system he shut off access to the entire .jhu.edu 
domain.  Now he will not even accept email from me.

Evidently, I am also an internet subversive :)

Doug
--
Douglas O'Neal, Senior Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
Doug.ONeal@jhu.edu, doug@jhuvms.bitnet, mimsy!jhunix!doug 
"Unix is user-friendly, its just picky about who it's friends with."