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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu!asamonte
- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.014934.16284@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:49:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec14.205357.27392@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 29
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem) was telling me...
- >In article <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- >|> How about a server that fakes host names for people? Do you know of
- >|> many other servers that do that? Gee mnystrom@patriot what the hell
- >|> kind of address is that?
- >
- >Well, it certainly isn't *fake*, although it may be a little incomplete. :)
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- It's fake to me. host patriot doesn't give me anything a nic.ddn.mil whois
- of patriot doesn't help either I don't care what kind of stupid justification
- you use. All you are doing is inviting other people do to the same, soon the
- boundaries are stretched and then who knows what. You KNOW you're faking
- your host. Why do you have to do it? Is there any particular reason?
- No, I don't think so.
-
- >You can get almost any server to do something similar to a hostname almost
- >as simply as patriot. Try /server localhost sometime while you're running
- >a client on your favorite server computer. Most servers I have seen do not
- >have K-lines for "* localhost".
- >
- So what is your point? Just because you can ge ta server to do it you should?
- Gee, well I can get a server to spew crap all over the net...should I do that
- too? How about a server that fakes a serverconnection to
- patriot.mit.edu? Gee, I can get a server to do it, should I?
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- -Alex
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