[plug] How does my IP address get to china?

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:59:30PM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:

| Fair enough - I didn't know IT hosted the mirror. Is the ident request part 
| of some sort of verification (I'm gessing at updating log files)? Obviously 
| it didn't make any difference that I blocked the request.

It's a way of getting extra information for logging, I believe.  identd
reports the username that initiated a connection - not something you'd
probably want running on your own machine.

Cameron.

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