Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Message-ID: <200201170500.g0H503U30064@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/33971; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/33971: finger could check if T/TCP is disabled and imply -T Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:52:27 -0500 (EST) <<On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:21:43 +1100, "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> said: > Perhaps I misunderstood. Anyway, finger'ing a host that doesn't run > fingerd takes longer to give an error than it should. Apparently > T/TCP was an experiment that failed because it was insecure, and because > nobody else showed much interest in it. It strikes me as stupid to > inconvenience those not using T/TCP when they are in the majority. Evidently you did misunderstand, since as I stated in my original reply, finger does not use Transaction TCP. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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