On Sat, Jul 10, 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19990710155721.c57...@holly.dyndns.org> Chris Costello writes: > : The whole point of ident was -- and still is -- to > : authenticate or verify who created a specific TCP connection. > > NO. The IDENT protocol was never intended to authenticate who was on > the other end. *NEVER*. People ABUSED it as such, but its value is > only as good as the person providing the information.
I was only specifying what I gathered from the RFC. What was ident actually intended for, then? -- Chris Costello <ch...@calldei.com> You might have mail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
