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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Identd looping?
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:41:12 -0800
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Dave Andersen wrote:
> basis until we disabled identd.  I was kinda hoping our FreeBSD boxes
> wouldn't succumb to it, since we're opening up one for shell accounts now.

Well, I'd say that it doesn't have much choice about suffering from the
same bugs in identd.. ;-)

Another ISP (CalWEB) is having similar problems and I've asked them if
they can use gdb's `attach' command to glom onto the identd next time
it's looping and try to figure out what's going on. 
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project