home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- 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: <1992Dec18.044353.29301@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 04:43:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.203157.10128@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec17.161650.8611@athena.mit.edu> <9212172023.AA08764@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 30
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
-
- tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) was telling me...
- >On Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:16:50 GMT, mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem) said:
- >
- > M> I haven't fixed it because I don't have root access and the people who do aren't
- > M> going to. I did the following instead:
- >
- > M> [from /scratch2/mnystrom/ircd.conf]
- >
- > M> K:patriot::*
- > M> K:localhost::*
- >
- > M> So now we get:
- > M> *** Connecting to port 6667 of server patriot
- > M> *** *** Ghosts are not allowed on IRC.
- >
- > M> I hope everyone is satisfied.
- >
- > Hardly. Take it out.
- >
- > Why should you disallow user on the host local to the server
- >simply because some loser decides that it offends his sensibilities?
- >Particularly when he's dunce enough to call a *system* problem an *IRC*
- >hack.
-
- I agree, K lining your own host is kinda silly. All you ahve to do is have them fix
- the problem. But you're too lazy to ask them, or motivate the admins to do it.
-
- -Alex
-
- --
-