Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:14:56 -0700 From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar), hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd@iafrica.com, danielc@iafrica.com Subject: Re: Fingering other servers broken in 2.2 and -current ? Message-ID: <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:59:10 MST." <199701201859.LAA15819@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > I've noticed a oddity on some FreeBSD 2.2 and 3.0-current machines. If I
> > finger a user on a public host of ours, I just get the hostname in square
> > brackets i.e. [servername.somewhere.org] and nothing else.
> >
>
> You must recompile fingerd; the structure of utmp has recently changed
> in -current.
Er, no. Finger on FreeBSD 2.2 and later tries to use T/TCP by default.
I'd probably call this a bug, since it causes finger to not work properly
with the majority of servers extant on the Internet.
To disable T/TCP with finger, supply the "-T" option to finger:
finger -T user@some-non-FreeBSD-host
The only reason I can guess for this slipping through is that it was
only tested on an homogenous FreeBSD network, where it works perfectly.
Unless someone can present a good reason for finger being broken WRT
the vast majority of servers out there, I'll send-pr this.
-Dave
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