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[Matthew Seaman]

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On 02/04/2010 15:12:33, Jon Radel wrote:
> This is why there's a school of thought that even if your default for
> firewall configuration is to quietly drop unwanted packets, IDENT is a
> protocol that you should actively reject.  It makes things move along
> more quickly.

That, and the fact that the ident protocol is utterly pointless -- it's
trivially easy for a server to lie about the owner of the other end of a
TCP connection.  In fact, doing that is a standard part of the
functionality of identd implementations.  Just a waste of packets.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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