Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:00:30 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fingering other servers broken in 2.2 and -current ? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970121010030.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net>; from Dave Andersen on Jan 20, 1997 14:14:56 -0700 References: <199701201859.LAA15819@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net>
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As Dave Andersen wrote: > Er, no. Finger on FreeBSD 2.2 and later tries to use T/TCP by default. > I'd probably call this a bug, since it causes finger to not work properly > with the majority of servers extant on the Internet. Then you must know of an Internet where the majority consists of Linux hosts. Mind you, i'm using finger a lot, but i have only noticed a few hosts right now that hang (but haven't verified whether all of them were Linux -- i think another half of the hangers are poorly firewalled machines). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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