Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz!w414zrz.ee.tu-berlin.de!jaenicke From: jaenicke@w414zrz.ee.tu-berlin.de (Lutz Jaenicke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: who's fingering me Keywords: finger Message-ID: <723@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> Date: 12 Jun 91 14:12:43 GMT References: <1991Jun10.155314.4829@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de Distribution: comp Organization: TU-Berlin Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: w414zrz.ee.tu-berlin.de In article rcbarn@urc.tue.nl writes: > >As a very simple but useful workaround in this case, you can use a >fingerd that immediately fingers back to the host it receives a request >from... > >-Raymond Seems to be quite a good way. I hope that there are not too much people this special fingerd or that a lock on maximum fingerd uses is applied. Or would you like your fingerd to finger the fingerer, calling his fingerd, which therefore fingers _you_ again, forcing your fingerd-system to finger... Would be fun, wouldn't it? Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke jaenicke@w414zrz.ee.tu-berlin.de Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen jaenicke@emapollo.ee.tu-berlin.de Technische Universitaet Berlin Tel. (004930)314-24552 Einsteinufer 11, D-1000 Berlin 10 Fax. (004930)314-21133