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- Subject: Re: Ident?
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:22:42 +0900
"Kacper Wysocki" <kacperw@online.no> writes:
>> >> Anyone still using ident [1] those days?
>> >
>> > In my experience of running email servers that traditionally check
>> > ident, these days it just causes problems.
>>
>> Given the large number of (residential) users that are behind NAT's,
>> it's unlikely you can even get the ident query back to the right host
>> in the first place.
>
> God damn NATs. They made the internet all wrong.
I think NAT sucks too, but lots of people refused to run ident servers
anyway, even back in the day.
-Miles
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