Re: finger-bombing

[steinber () SLINKY CS NYU EDU (Joseph Steinberg)]

On Thu, 13 Oct 1994, Tony Jago wrote:

>   I would say that the person is fingering you from one host but is 
>   bounceing the finger off different hosts. For example:
>
>               finger @host.to.attack () host to.bounceoff
>
>      example: finger @brolga.cc.uq.oz.au () archie au
>
>   I am not sure if this a "bug" or not but alot of system allow this sort 
>   of thing. HP-UX doesn't. SunOS does.

AIX also allows this. I am not sure why SunOS and AIX do, but they do...
JS
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