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Date:      Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:54:09 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc:        Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov>, Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, plamendp@bgstore.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet connection refused from IP outside subnet 
Message-ID:  <200008030454.WAA33895@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:00:09 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031058360.65977-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031058360.65977-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031058360.65977-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> andrew@ugh.net.au writes:
: 
: 
: On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Tim Zingelman wrote:
: 
: > The RFC931 part may be silly, but the PARANOID part keeps out any ip
: 
: RFC931 isn't always silly. _You_ may not be able to trust the results but
: the site you complain to may be glad of the info if they know they can
: trust their ident server.

Assuming that the response wasn't forged, that an intruder didn't
tamper with the authd on the remote site or that the logs on the local 
site weren't altered, then yes, I suppose that you might be able to
get some utility out of it. :-)

Warner


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