On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Anonymous wrote: > 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) I would say that the person is fingering you from one host but is bounceing the finger off different hosts. For example: finger @host.to.attack@host.to.bounceoff example: finger @brolga.cc.uq.oz.au@archie.au I am not sure if this a "bug" or not but alot of system allow this sort of thing. HP-UX doesn't. SunOS does. Happy fingering!!! --- Tony Jago, System Administrator, E-Mail: T.Jago@fit.qut.edu.au Faculty of Information Technology, Web: http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~tony Queensland University of Technology. Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, AUSTRALIA. Problems should be mailed to: Phone: +61 7 864-2573 Fax: +61 7 864-1959 help@fit.qut.edu.au