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From: Dave Lawrence
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: fingerd allows third party fingers
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Date: 15 Dec 88 16:43:56 GMT
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tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) wrote:
>In article <1477@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, leres@ace (Craig Leres) writes:
>>	As distributed, fingerd allows third party fingers. This makes
>>	it impossible for sites who wish to syslog remote finger
>>	requests to log original site.
>>		% finger @arpa@ucbvax
>>	Don't allow third party fingers....
>
>I consider this a feature, not a bug.  Several times I've depended on

I appreciate it too ... if I'm on a machine that doesn't have as complete
a host table as another machine I know, then I can usually effectively
use the other machine to get what I want to know.
 
My question is this: why would a site want to log remote finger requests?
 
Dave
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