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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: a BSD identd 
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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.


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