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Subject: Re: FIngering freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000821143536.nicole@unixgirl.com> from "Nicole Harrington." at "Aug 21, 2000 02:35:36 pm"
To: nicole@unixgirl.com (Nicole Harrington.)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:00:48 -0700 (PDT)
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From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul)
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> 
>  Before I was able to finger a user at freebsd.org see if they were on etc. Now
> it seems that freebsd.org no longer has an IP and people.freebsd.org does not
> allow fingering. Will this be allowed again?

The freebsd.org machines were moved recently to a new location at
Yahoo, and their DNS entries were updated. One change is that freebsd.org
is now just an MX record, where previously it was an alias for hub.
If you finger username@hub.freebsd.org, it should work as before.

-Bill


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