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- From: cc4507@u.cc.utah.edu (Chucki Carpinello)
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.023859.9761@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: Yo Man!
- References: <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec14.205357.27392@athena.mit.edu> <mrgreen.724462764@munagin>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 02:38:59 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <mrgreen.724462764@munagin> mrgreen@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) writes:
- >mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem) writes:
- >
- >>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. :)
- >>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".
- >
- >At least when you /server localhost, the whole domain comes up..
- >
- >311 p is mrgreen@localhost.ee.mu.OZ.AU (the lame one, also monica's)
- >312 on irc via server munagin.ee.mu.OZ.AU (University of Melbourne, Australian Hub)
- >317 p has been idle 0 seconds
- >
- Not always. . .
- *** Chucki is chucki@localhost (Chuck Carpinello)
- *** on IRC via server csulx.weber.edu (Weber State college, Odgen, Utah)
- *** Chucki is not idle
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- >Any one with any clues will know that you are on the machine the server
- >is running on. As to just showing user@host but no domain, when there are
- >machines with the same first name around.. tsk tsk.. and there are two
- >American servers with that are called uxa. Cool.
- >
- >
- say YES to non-local oper kills with harsher punishments
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