On Sat, Jul 10, 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Costello writes:
> : The whole point of ident was -- and still is -- to
> : authenticate or verify who created a specific TCP connection.
>
> NO. The IDENT protocol was never intended to authenticate who was on
> the other end. *NEVER*. People ABUSED it as such, but its value is
> only as good as the person providing the information.
I was only specifying what I gathered from the RFC. What was
ident actually intended for, then?
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Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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