On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:50:39AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote:
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:01 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >> Why do you do do ident checks, anyway? I thought they were pointless these
> >> days... I've had rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s set for ages now.
> >
> > they are not pointless if you want us to accurately handle complaints
> > about abuse coming from our multi-user servers. a timeout of 5s should
> > be plenty, though.
> >
>
> We've given up in ident checks, and do not run a daemon ourselves.
>
> The benefit you gain shows up how? And is it unique, or something that can be
> adequately served by other means?
this is also a good tool to weed out some spam.
suppose the zombie machine drops identd, it will have to wait
until it times out. not a lot of ratware wait that long (20 sec here).
bye
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xavier
