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Merc DNS and IDENT - Historical Mailing List Discussion
Historical Merc DNS and IDENT - Historical Mailing List Discussion. Review the included attribution, license and compatibility warnings.
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Historical Merc DNS and IDENT - Historical Mailing List Discussion. Review the included attribution, license and compatibility warnings. Original: identdstuff Credits John A. Booth; quoted discussion by Derek Snider; original authorship of some borrowed code unspecified License notice No explicit redistribution grant identified in this original; retain notices and inherited terms, and await permission review. Compatibility and security warnings Historical mailing-list message with public email headers and obsolete contact details; mixed prose/code, not a drop-in compilable file. Fork/pipe DNS and IDENT integration; remote-input handling, timeout, descriptor/process cleanup and operating-system assumptions need review. Original bytes and notices are preserved. Not compiled, executed, boot-tested or comprehensively security-audited. Historical contacts may no longer work. Upload validation is not malware clearance or redistribution approval.
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MUD Snippets / Merc networking; exact historical version required, modern compatibility unverified
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John A. Booth
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John A. Booth; quoted discussion by Derek Snider; original authorship of some borrowed code unspecified
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