Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:10:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen) Cc: terry@lambert.org, khetan@iafrica.com, hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd@iafrica.com, danielc@iafrica.com Subject: Re: Fingering other servers broken in 2.2 and -current ? Message-ID: <199701202110.OAA16324@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net> from "Dave Andersen" at Jan 20, 97 02:14:56 pm
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> 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. Ah. No, the bug is in an intermediate host TCP implementation. > Unless someone can present a good reason for finger being broken WRT > the vast majority of servers out there, I'll send-pr this. Even pre-extension TCP implementations were required to allow data on SYN packets. If there is one which does not, it is non-compliant and should be bugreported to the manufacturer. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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