> It's too bad the net has turned into such an appliance. In the old days,
> each site often implemented their own TCP/IP stack and SMTP/FTP/etc. servers
> from scratch, so even if they had security flaws they weren't well-known.
> Returning to that might have some advantages ... I know someone who munged
> in a fake version banner in his wu.ftpd just so the crackers would be more
> likely to leave him alone, worth a shot!
>
> John Wilson
> D Bit
>
>
You mean like the following...
BTW -- if FreeVMS ever comes out in intel this box will run it.
Right now it's just FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE.
telnet i4got
Trying 199.245.130.131...
Connected to i4got.pechter.dyndns.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeVMS 0.9 (i4got.pechter.dyndns.org) (ttyp2)
Username:
Bill
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Received on Sat May 06 2000 - 20:10:23 BST