Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:27:29 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <57877.931627649@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:13:17 %2B0200." <57350.931626797@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:13:17 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The existing ident implementation is designed to answer queries without > answering with any information. This is done so that services MTA's and > irc daemons don't end up waiting for ages for the ident request to time > out. The above paragraph was presented with a tone of more authority than warranted -- this is the way it looks to me, but I don't know for a fact why inetd's existing auth service operates the way it does. Regardless, my comments about folks relying on its existing behaviour still apply. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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