From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 16 21: 0: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B3437B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0H503U30064; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201170500.g0H503U30064@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Reply-To: Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:52:27 -0500 (EST) < said: > 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. Evidently you did misunderstand, since as I stated in my original reply, finger does not use Transaction TCP. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message