Re: finger-bombing

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> 
> 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)

Contact the admins of those hosts and tell them to have it stopped.  
Also, modify inetd.conf and comment out finger and kill -HUP inetd
to restart it.


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