On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:13:17 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> The existing ident implementation is designed to answer queries without > answering with any information. This is done so that services MTA's and > irc daemons don't end up waiting for ages for the ident request to time > out. The above paragraph was presented with a tone of more authority than warranted -- this is the way it looks to me, but I don't know for a fact why inetd's existing auth service operates the way it does. Regardless, my comments about folks relying on its existing behaviour still apply. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
