From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 08:26:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA03564 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 08:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA03555 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 08:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA08873; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:26:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:26:06 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605221526.AA08873@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: HMG coA reductase Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: auth and port 113 In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > i'd like to know what exactly is this "auth" thing that resides on port > 113. Who uses it? What can it do? What good is it? You'll get lots of conflicting answers, which are all 99.94% opinion. My personal opinion: it's worthless; don't waste your time on it. > and if a DOS-based telnet client doesn't recognise this auth thing, why > does it take 10 seconds before the login: prompt appears? It's doing a host lookup. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant