full-disclosure - Ever cought BitchX listening on a port ?

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From: full-disclosure at botanicus.net (Dave Wilson)
Subject: Ever cought BitchX listening on a port ?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 02:58:29PM -0400, Nicolas Couture wrote:
> The version of BitchX used in the fallowing suprise is the lastest
> debian package from mirrors.kernel.org installed with apt-get.
> 
> Suprise from BitchX fallows

I believe all you need to do to cure this is RTFM. When you use /detach
in BitchX, it will listen on a port for scr-bx (and a magic cookie) in
order to re-attach.

I know no more than this, only that when you scr-bx successfully, BitchX
will stop listening, and attach to your tty directly (IIRC).

Dave.