[plug] Fw: I am so sorry!Your hosts was hacked!

[Beau Kuiper]

why don't you just replace the ident program to one that gives false
identities, or write a simple one up in perl. These are significantly
simpler than normal ident servers so it should not be a problem

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> I was also worried about identd as #1 son uses irc (masq'd from his
> windoze machine).  I found that if you set ipchains to deny, it would
> not let some servers connect, however, if you set it to reject, the
> server was happy using the reject packet.  Apparently the servers just
> check for a service at that address, not the actual return values. 
> Anyways, he knows the block is there, but hasnt come back and said he
> cannot reach any irc servers, and I can see the connect attempts in the
> log.
> 
> BillK
> 
> Simon Scott wrote:
> > 
> >         Sounds good in theory :) And for some it may work well. But ok, take
> > my example. I need identd open so I can connect to irc servers.
> > 
> >         Thats why I get 3-4 attempts on it a week.
> >
> 
>