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Originally posted by raceprouk
Forwarding it to the ether never stopped me on IRC or FTP.
If I understand how IDENT works correctly, it's the method used by old Unix servers to check the identity of a machine. However, now there's SSL, there's no need to check identity, so IDENT has waned in use. Only old, non-SSL servers will use IDENT.
Ahem. SSL has nothing to do with Ident, nor does it replace it. It's not defunct or old either, its commonly used.
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