North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Suggestion for improved identD
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 08:26:28AM -0700, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote: > I hate to break it to you, but not everyone runs Win95 or a Niftee NT > Box where people can forge ident to be whatever they please. Some of us > actually run REAL multiuser operating systems where the ident can be trusted. [ ... ] > I don't want to hear any BS about how 'ident is unreliable' and 'ident > can't be trusted'. If it's been properly set up such that the ISP controls > what is returned rather than the user, or if the protocol is properly > redesigned to guarantee this, it *WILL* be trustworthy. And a particular > ISP can't be trusted to run a proper ident, then they get their entire > network blocked. I hate to point this out, Dal, but what is being asserted is that "the operator of the ident daemon is not under the same administrative span of control as I am". _That_ is why we say that it "cannot be trusted". Trust has a _very specific_ meaning there. It _might_ be reliable... but then again, it might not. Unless _you_ have a _contract_ with the _guy at the other end_, specifying that he'll run an authenticated ident server, and guarantee on pain of indemnity that it's accurate, you can't call it _trustworthy_. There _is_ a difference between that and _useful_, however. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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