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{} Currently, we have TALK blocked, but I have a user who needs/wants
{} to be able to use talk to communicate with a collegue outside
{} of our network. Any big problems with allowing this access?
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If someone wants to be a pain they can send username field that holds
control codes that act on xterms to segv them (X11R5) and find out that
root/firewall/etc. is not logged in.
A possibly better soloution is irc - that way your machines still hide behined
a fire wall but the server processes on your gateway machine passes the
application specific packets - also the Client to Client protocol (the only
real danger with irc) is blocked by your existing firewall. IRC is PD with
source available.
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