On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 09:30 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
One of the first things that I always shut off, since the days of
RH5, was the ident daemon and later on the port itself. I don't care
to use it, I've never had problems not running it and I don't see any
reason why I should either. I don't think this would be a problem
either, but then maybe you'll prove me wrong.
I recall reading about people having problems with their own ISPs if
they ignored it (e.g. getting their mail), and it can certainly cause
problems with logging onto some IRC services.
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