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From: Roman Drahtmueller (drahtsuse.de)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 12:05:51 CST

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    > Not quite on the same topic, but is there anything out there that
    > actually demands identd to run on the connecting client other than IRC
    > servers (sometimes)?

    Negative. The protocol is really that useless. The only advantage that you
    might have is to see libwrap syslog-entries as userschnick.host if you
    trust the host that has been asked, but _only_ if you trust it.
    Considering that some of the implementions allow users to have their
    config file that is being looked up by the server, it's rendered useless
    again if not otherwise configured.
    The thread-safe segfault suicide when you try to overflow the input might
    be just as useful as the protocol.

    >
    > Cooper
    >

    Roman. 

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