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- From: ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward)
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Message-ID: <Bt0HDD.Lzx@cs.psu.edu>
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- Organization: The Society for Green Traffic Lights
- References: <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu> <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:15:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- |> I want to know who is "finger"ing me (no jokes please...)
- |>and I want it to keep a log.
- |
- |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 because there seem to be a lot of people who
- |would like to have it (I'm not one of them though)
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- As one of the authors of a fingerd, I would like to express how ludicrously
- stupid I think the idea of a fingerd that does this is. With all of the
- various fingerds out there, the chances for loopback are pretty, uh, nasty.
-
- I suggest reading rfc931. Then, install tcp wrapper and ident, and you can
- get stuff like this:
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- Aug 15 02:01:02 euler.math.psu.edu in.fingerd[7640]: connect from ward@lagrange.math.psu.edu
- Aug 15 02:01:04 euler.math.psu.edu in.fingerd[7673]: connect from ward@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu
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