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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: <1992Dec19.040137.7398@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 04:01:37 GMT
- References: <9212151418.AA02294@hrt213.brooks.af.mil> <1992Dec15.203358.10285@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <9212182054.AA04436@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 25
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- Sten M. Drescher <smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil> was telling me...
- >
- > Just> Sure it does. Or atleast it doens't work as it should. WHenever
- > Just> someone tries to forge a usenet posting, that's considered a
- > Just> hack. I see irc as following the same rules. When this was a
- > Just> hot topic a year or so ago about forged usernames, someone cited
- > Just> some net policy about misrepresenting yourself or something. If
- > Just> such a policy exists, I would think it would apply here too.
- >
- > OK, MilNet 'policy' is to refuse to allow reverse resolving.
- >Therefore, whenever I go onto IRC, I show up as smd@140.140.4.216,
- >arather than smd@animal.brooks.af.mil or smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil. I
- >can't fix this, neither Cerebus nor I have enough pull to get it fixed
- >(and A1C and a Sgt vs. MilNet admin - yeah, right!). How long's it
- >gonna be before I'm accused of forging my location? Don't worry, I
- >already have been, and Cerebus only introduced me to IRC a month ago.
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- smd@140.140.4.216 is a valid address...I can mail there, i can traceroute
- to there..
- If your whois said smd@140 I woudl then have a problem.
- (Though smd@216 would probably be more 'correct' in comparison to patriot)
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- -Alex
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