On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Mike wrote:
> 
> >Try disabling IDENT in the FTP daemon and see what happens ... the -I
> >option does this for wu-ftpd.
> 
> Assuming this works, what are the ramifications of disabling IDENT?  If 
> something's wrong with my resolving setup, I'd like to fix it.

It means you will no longer be using a broken and worthless protocol
to find out who the remote user is :)  It has nothing to do with the
DNS resolver (and I don't think that's your problem).

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