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refactoring plus one small bugfix replaced deep nested conditionals with early exits fixed a small bug in the same go (Note: it is bad to fix bugs during refactoring): The SMTP_HELO case did not break in case of error. Now it does.
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date Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:11:28 +0200 (2010-06-19)
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1 COPYRIGHT ISSUES:
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3 This version of 'libident' is hereby released into the
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4 Public Domain. It may be distributed for a fee or without
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5 a fee. We only ask you not to pretend you wrote it.
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7 If you make any changes, please send sources or a diff of it to
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8 us (pen@lysator.liu.se or pell@lysator.liu.se), so we can keep
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9 _one_ unified version of libident available...
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12 FTP SITE:
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14 The official FTP site and location for libident is:
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16 ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/libs
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19 COMMENTS:
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21 This is the second stab at a small library to interface to the Ident
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22 protocol server. Maybe this will work correctly on some machines.. :-)
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24 The ident-tester.c file is a small daemon (to be started from Inetd)
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25 that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used
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26 to verify that your Ident server is working correctly.
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28 I'm currently running this "ident-tester" on port 114 at lysator.liu.se
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29 (130.236.254.1) if you wish to test your server.
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31 /Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, 1 Aug 1992
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34 This library now contains some higher-level routines, as well as a
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35 similar test program to test these (lookup-tester).
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37 /P�r Emanuelsson <pell@lysator.liu.se>, 4 April 1993
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40 Support for NextStep 3.1 added.
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42 /Michael Kuch <kuch@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>, 13 Aug 1993
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45 Updated the ident.h header file to work with Linux, and reorganized the
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46 Makefile for easier compilation...
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48 /Peter Eriksson, 18 Oct 1994
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51 Added the copyright notice at the top.
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53 /Peter Eriksson, 29 Nov 1994
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56 For release 0.18:
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58 Added some bug fixes and improvements from Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin
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59 (syj@ecmwf.int).
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61 /Peter Eriksson, 5 Oct 1995
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64 For release 0.20:
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66 Some cleanup of the distribution, and some bug fixes in the
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67 ident-tester.c source. Perhaps it should be called 1.0? (Perhaps
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68 it should use GNU Autoconf...)
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70 /Peter Eriksson, 13 Nov 1996
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73 For release 0.21:
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75 A couple of minor fixes (mainly support for 2.11BSD).
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77 /Peter Eriksson, 17 Jan 1997