kernel.org finger service

kernel.org finger service

[Herbert Poetzl]

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.

# finger @kernel.org
[kernel.org]

best,
Herbert

Re: kernel.org finger service

[Jeff Garzik]

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 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.
> 
> # finger @kernel.org
> [kernel.org]


It's intermittent...

	Jeff

Re: kernel.org finger service

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <402EBCBA.3070502@pobox.com>
By author:    Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > # finger @kernel.org
> > [kernel.org]
> 
> It's intermittent...
> 

The finger service is low priority and shuts down under high load.

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Re: kernel.org finger service

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:12:38 +0100, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>  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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Re: kernel.org finger service

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:12:38 +0100, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>  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.

hey, I'm no automaton, I'm still a human 8-)

best,
Herbert