[3519] in SIPB bug reports
Re: bfinger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 16 13:58:42 1993
From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: abeechum@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [3518] in SIPB bug reports
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 13:58:08 EST
>I've been trying to use the bfinger command across bitnet to SAMFORD
>and have been getting the following message from the SAMFORD daemon :
>
>DMTCMX209E Restricted command CPQ
This means that the BITNET software at Samford University is
configured to give that error message in response to some or all
commands received over the network. It has nothing to do with the
software configuration here at MIT.
They might have done this in an attempt to reduce system load, or
maybe because they don't want outsiders to be able to check on the
validity of usernames, for security reasons.
In general, it's hard to tell from here. If you'd like to ask them
about it, you could send mail to postmast@samford.bitnet or
glwarner@samford.bitnet.
Matt
