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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: <1992Dec15.015224.16530@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:52:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec15.000434.16968@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 34
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- cc4507@u.cc.utah.edu (Chucki Carpinello) was telling me...
- >In article <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- >>
- >>Ever noticed how many people USE csd? Gee george, how many other servers
- >>do you know of that have crashed because they went over the max user
- >>limit of ircd?
- > I belive netserv2.its.rpi.edu did once
-
- Well not that many huh?
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- >>> NOW, I do disagree with some ops on that server, but it does not make
- >>> it vanity....
- >>>
- >>
- >>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?
- >>
- > That's not a fake hostname, gee, dont know know tat sometimes that
- >heppens whhen somone from the same host comes on? It's not>a hack,
- >it's a problem with etc/hosts
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- Doubtful. Look at his last post...he knows it's a hack. The only
- one I can think of off the top of my head (that I didn't think of last
- time) was a server in *.tw I think it was. And how long did that last?
- patriot has been faking the hostname from day1.
-
-
- >>Faking a hostname is frowned highly upon.
- >>
- >>-Alex
- >>
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