Why do we still use IDENTD?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 9, 2002 @12:26AM from the I've-been-wondering-the-same-thing dept.

Wakko Warner asks: "So anyway, I was on IRC the other day (as I am often wont to do), and, as I was being banned from the network for not running 'identd', I thought to myself: 'Why do we still use this???' Can anyone come up with a valid reason why, in 2002, ident is still considered by some people to be a necessary component of the Internet? Most people use Windows for everything, and Windows has no identity services. Most UNIX folks I know disable it for security reasons. So, why do people still insist we run it in order to connect to their network? Is it still 1993 in some part of the world?"

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Re:Plenty of identd servers for Win32 by aderuwe · 2002-12-09 00:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Heh, that last link even has some funny source code I didn't notice at first glance. ;)
Knock, Knock by cramped+bowels · 2002-12-09 00:43 · Score: 4, Funny

SNL said it best : knock, knock Belushi : who's there ? voice on the other side of the door : candygram! (Belushi opens door) Belushi : Ahhhh! Landshark! (shark head consumes John Belushi) IOW , "identd" is only as trustworthy as the one who runs it; Odama's identd is not likely to respond "BinLadin".