On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz) wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > Actually, you'll need it if you're running an IRC client. > > > > > Not really. It'll just take longer to connect to the IRC servers and they > will report that they couldn't obtain any information about your identity. > That's all. > > I've been running it that way for years now. The port is closed on my > system, the service is disabled in inetd.conf and my firewall is also > blocking the packets on that port.
I suppose it depends on which network you're using, and which servers. Most of the ones I connect to won't let you in if they can't ident your connection. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
