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Bugtraq archives for 4th quarter (Oct-Dec) 1994: Re: finger-bombing

Re: finger-bombing

Tony Jago (tonyfit.qut.edu.au)
Thu, 13 Oct 1994 16:14:24 +1000 (EST) 

On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Anonymous wrote:

> 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)

  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.attackhost.to.bounceoff

     example: finger brolga.cc.uq.oz.auarchie.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.

  Happy fingering!!!

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