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- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.202923.9973@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:29:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.000434.16968@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec15.015224.16530@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec15.083755.6691@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 41
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- hachec@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Greg Patterson) was telling me...
- >In article <1992Dec15.015224.16530@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >You said it...
- >
- >>> 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
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >Oh lovely, just because a user happens to show up as user@patriot you
- >decide that it is hacked.. You don't even know the cause or reasons for
- >this yet you are jumping to conclusions.
-
- People have explained possible reasons. But seems to me that since it
- HASN'T been fixed, then I consider it a hack...how long has patriot
- been up? I haven't kept track...but it's been a while. He knows
- the problem exists, so why has nothing been done to fix it?
-
- >I suspect this server is running under SunOS. jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
- >had a similar problem for a few days (week maybe?) and it had nothing
-
- Oh, a few days, a week...Well atleast you're expedient in fixing it.
- From mystroms post, he did not see it a a problem, nor did he show
- any indication of wanting to fix it.
-
- >to do with hacking the source any shut shit. It just appeared that way.
- >IT HAS TO DO WITH THE etc/hosts not mapping properly. The admin will
- >probably have to define them by hand to fix it (if it hasn't been
- >done already).
-
- It hasn't.
-
- -Alex
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