From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 09:41:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA00691 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:41:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00686 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA13988; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:40:04 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199603121740.JAA13988@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:40:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, adf@fl.net.au, olah@cs.utwente.nl, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603120135.RAA03399@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 11, 96 05:35:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > From: Terry Lambert > Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP > > It seems that Andrew Foster said: > > > And yet the old finger works fine, as does fingering from most other host > >>s > > > I've tried. > > > > Finger has been changed (or fixed :-)) to use T/TCP recently... > > "Fixed" is subjective. It saves one response packet and loses > interoperability. 8-(. > > It interoperates fine with non-broken TCP implementations. I'm really glad > that finger was chosen... of course, it should have been DOCUMENTED. :-) > And an option added that disables the use of T/TCP so that a user can finger a broken TCP system. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD