On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:58:59 +0100, Andreas Maus wrote:
>The only service that should (or could,depends on your point of view)

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>be allowed from the internet is IMHO the identd service.

>

>Blocking this service may cause some delay because some mailers and

>irc servers are checking for this service.

>

>OTOH it may be considered as a security risc to give strangers valid

>usernames. (If you need inetd requests from the outside and dont want

>to give them valid usernames you can install a other identd, e.g.

>oidentd or just a fakeidentd to return an arbitrary username)

>

Or better still leave inetd running and use its built-in identd and

give it -helo as its flags.

 man identd will tell you why.
Rod/
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