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

[Jason Nicholls]

Hiya,

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:07:47AM +0800, Jason Nicholls wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:29:42PM +0800, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Because he was right. I just tested and if you REJECT the packets then all is
> well ;) Setting a REJECT rule in ipchains is the easiest option.

Looks like I was half right. Some IRC servers will allow access with a REJECT
and others won't. An example is Austnet where REJECT works, and OpenProjects
where REJECT doesn't.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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