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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:14 May 2000 at 14:01:12
Subject:Re: Ident port

Samuel Byford said,

>>> So - question is, whats the Ident port and how do I close it??

> <snip nice extensive explanation>

> Thanks for that. I hadnt realised that this was exactly the same as what was
> being talked about on the Netconnect list (IDENTD was talked about)

Ident is the name of the service. A daemon to handle a service is
usually named after the service with a "d" appended. popd, smtpd, ircd,
named etc.

Neil


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