From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 20 16:21:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA12598 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA12579 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA26149 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:21:06 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id BAA00713; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:00:31 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 ? References: <199701201859.LAA15819@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net>; from Dave Andersen on Jan 20, 1997 14:14:56 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)