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Re: finger-bombing

From: perry () IMSI COM (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 12:33:52 -0400


Anonymous says:

What is the best way to keep someone from finger-bombing
your site other than having fingerd cat /unix to stdout?

(other than hosts.deny.  We have a person who fingers
a user at our site from different hosts hundreds of times
per hour)


Comment out the line for finger in /etc/inetd.conf.

Perry

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