Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:30:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Message-ID: <200201170330.g0H3U1N04813@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:21:43 +1100 On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:38:02PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Your suggestion is bogus. As the manual page clearly indicates, the > presence or absence of Transaction TCP support is not relevant to > what the finger client does. (In fact, even when T/TCP was supported > by default, finger was not able to use it because the finger protocol > requires that the server close the connection first.) Perhaps I misunderstood. Anyway, finger'ing a host that doesn't run fingerd takes longer to give an error than it should. Apparently T/TCP was an experiment that failed because it was insecure, and because nobody else showed much interest in it. It strikes me as stupid to inconvenience those not using T/TCP when they are in the majority. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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