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Subject: Re: port 113 - auth
From: Jeff Murphy <jcmurphy @ cadman . cit . buffalo . edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 17:49:11 -0500 (EST)
To: matt @ worldlinx . com (Matthew Harding)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9412052130 . AA21185 @ jupiter . worldlinx . com> from "Matthew Harding" at Dec 5, 94 04:30:51 pm

Matthew Harding insists:
>
>
>We have been receiving numerous queries on this port... can anyone tell
>me if it is used by some standard program, or if we should be concerned
>at all regarding this activity? Please respond directly and I will post
>a summary in a few days.
>
>Thanks,
>Matthew (matt @
 worldlinx .
 com)
>




	it's used by the ident daemon to back-trace connections to the
	user who originated it. many machines, http daemons, etc
	have this feature enabled.. check rfc931 for more info.



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