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What is Fingering?

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Name: Manish
Date: November 13, 2001 at 05:39:18 Pacific
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Can u please tell me what is fingering to the server and why is it used for?
Thanks



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Name: dannny
Date: November 13, 2001 at 06:28:22 Pacific
Reply:

Finger is a tools mainly used by system/network administrator to query a server.

It give information about the server or a specific user of this server.

For security and confidentiality reasons, most networks block thoses requests or completly shutdown this service.



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Name: RJ
Date: November 19, 2001 at 14:47:29 Pacific
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What I useally get when I cut someone off. LOL


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