fingerd allows third party fingers

[Tad Guy]

In article <1477 at helios.ee.lbl.gov>, leres at ace (Craig Leres) writes:
>	As distributed, fingerd allows third party fingers. This makes
>	it impossible for sites who wish to syslog remote finger
>	requests to log original site.
>		% finger @arpa at ucbvax
>	Don't allow third party fingers....

I consider this a feature, not a bug.  Several times I've depended on
this behavior to determine if another site was really down or if the
Internet routes were being screwy (can you guess which it usually
was?).

I expect others have found this useful as well.  I'd suggest against
others disabling it...

	...tad

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Tad Guy         <tadguy at cs.odu.edu>     Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA