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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: <1992Dec17.192257.29291@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 19:22:57 GMT
- References: <9212151412.AA02280@hrt213.brooks.af.mil> <1992Dec15.203157.10128@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec17.161650.8611@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 49
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
-
- mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem) was telling me...
- >In article <1992Dec15.203157.10128@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- >|> tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) was telling me...
- >|> >On 15 Dec 92 01:49:34 GMT, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) said:
- >|> >
- >|> > > 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.
- >|> >
- >|> >
- >|> [Cut and paste deleted]
- >|>
- >|> You did patriot.mit.edu That's not what shows up when you do
- >|> /whois dog3
- >|> when he is logged in via patriot. you Just get patriot.
- >|> no mit.edu
- >|>
- >|> -Alex
- >|>
- >|> --
- >*** dog5 is mnystrom@patriot (Mika Nystrom)
- >*** on irc via server Patriot.mit.edu (Fastest draw in the East)
- >*** dog5 has been idle 6 seconds
- >It *does* say patriot.mit.edu; that's why I never considered it a major problem.
-
- For the server, yay. Not for you.
-
- >I haven't fixed it because I don't have root access and the people who do aren't
- >going to. I did the following instead:
-
- Did you ask? Did they tell you that they were too busy to do it?
-
- >[from /scratch2/mnystrom/ircd.conf]
- >
- >K:patriot::*
- >K:localhost::*
- >
- >So now we get:
- >*** Connecting to port 6667 of server patriot
-
- Gee, why not try connecting to patriot.mit.edu A few extra letterS make
- a world of difference. You don't have to use 'localhost'
-
- -Alex
-
- --
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