Re: kernel.org finger service

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:12:38 +0100, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  said:
> 
> hmm, probably everybody knows and there is a good 
> reason for it, but just for the unlikely case, that 
> it did went unnoticed ...
> 
> the finger services at kernel.org does not return
> useful information atm.

>From the main page at http://www.kernel.org:

August 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of automatic
monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is causing the
finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same information is
available from http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner.

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