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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Fri Mar 28 22:45:52 PST 2003</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>I tried the hostname change and it fixed it.  Considering it was giving me a
  35 </I>&gt;<i>password error, I would have never dreamed it was an IP problem.  Thanks to
  36 </I>&gt;<i>all for the help.
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  38      This probably stems from old Unix thinking that says &quot;never give an
  39 attacker more information than necessary&quot;; for example, when you log into a
  40 Unix system, even if you give a username that doesn't exist you'll still
  41 get a &quot;password incorrect&quot; error, to prevent potential attackers from
  42 finding out valid usernames on the system.  Whether this is applicable to
  43 IRC is a question definitely worth thinking about--server names on the
  44 network are usually public knowledge--but that's probably where it came
  45 from.
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  47   --Andrew Church
  48     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at achurch.org</A>
  49     <A HREF="http://achurch.org/">http://achurch.org/</A>
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