On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:11:52AM -0800, jhenders@??? wrote:
>
> > easy problem to track down. I've basically given up on ident as the
> > number of machines running it make it pretty useless any more and there
> > are mini ident servers for windows boxes that will tell you whatever the
> > user wants.
>
> That doesn't matter, given what ident is for. If it's a single user machine,
> or a multi-user machine that doesn't normally run ident, as most windows
> machines are, then the sysadmin dealing with the abuse report will just
> ignore the ident information. He'll only pay any attention to it if it comes
> from an identd he configured, and in that case it will be useful to him.
Exactly. If you complain about abuse from one of our IP addresses, if it
is the address of a student's personal machine, we don't need any more
information - we know who to grill. If, on the other hand, it is the
address of a large shared server (several thousand registered users,
hundreds logged in simultaneously) then the ident information is vital.
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