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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Date: 15 Aug 1992 08:14:04 +0200
- Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <16i7bcINNgrp@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- References: <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu> <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU>
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- [unadequate distribution: usa removed, I guess that bad idea of fingering back
- is not only US specific]
-
- In article <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- >From the frequency with which similar questions arise, I would guess
- >that no such fingerd has been written, but if you write one, I suggest
- >you definitely post it
-
- Maybe that no one a done such things because after asking the question
- people realized that this is not necesarilly a good idea. For those
- who really wanna have some more information, limit yourself to getting
- the adress/name of the remote host with the DNS. Do not finger or
- rusers back to the caller's host. If both sites have the same mechanism
- this will create loops and (laughs) overflow your process table.
-
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