Re: finger-bombing

Perry E. Metzger (perry@IMSI.COM)
Wed, 12 Oct 1994 12:33:52 -0400

Anonymous says:
> What is the best way to keep someone from finger-bombing
> your site other than having fingerd cat /unix to stdout?
> 
> (other than hosts.deny.  We have a person who fingers
> a user at our site from different hosts hundreds of times
> per hour)

Comment out the line for finger in /etc/inetd.conf.

Perry