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"BTW, if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her digital sataaaan!"[0] When this was first released, I wonder how digital it was back in 1990.
Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
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Re: Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
#22It's also shared by mdqs. What's that?
Best guess from Duckin' is an old military proposal called "Multiple Device Queuing System" https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/papers/82usenix-mdqs/usenix.h...
Re: Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
#23Does 'officially' do anything?
Well, it does about as much as say, when Congress names an Aircraft Carrier, or ISO some day publishes C++ 23 (probably later this year).
Concretely your Linux systems probably have a file named /etc/services which maps the string "doom" to port number 666, much as it maps "ssh" to 22 or "http" to 80.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
For young'uns who weren't enjoying The Register's constant string of snarky headlines at the time... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
> was dismissed with prejudice; SCO filed an appeal later that month. Doesn't "with prejudice" mean no appeal?
Even better, is that
> SCO filed an appeal later that month.
Is the end of the timeline... and that was 2016.
Re: Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
#25Why not also include the IANA link: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
So when I scan a server and 666 happens to be open. Nmap will now report “doom” under the “Service” header? Most people will get a chuckle, but I suspect laymen and even Christian zealots will throw a fit. Like when a normal person gets an error on their screen and it prints “process closed: child killed by parent”. It will probably raise an eyebrow at the very least, lol.
"now"? It's been registered that way since the 90s.
Re: Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
#26Why not also include the IANA link: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
So when I scan a server and 666 happens to be open. Nmap will now report “doom” under the “Service” header? Most people will get a chuckle, but I suspect laymen and even Christian zealots will throw a fit. Like when a normal person gets an error on their screen and it prints “process closed: child killed by parent”. It will probably raise an eyebrow at the very least, lol.
> but I suspect laymen and even Christian zealots will throw a fit.
No doubt.
I was once, back at university so two and a half decades ago, helping someone with accessing stuff on a Unix server (he was not much computer literate at all). He was ahem rather enthusiastically Christian, and unsettled by seeing 666, thinking we'd set it up and were having a jab at him (which, in fairness to his paranoia, some of us might have done).
Those files were on a shared resource so shouldn't have been world writable, or even group writable for that matter, so we did report it (the directory wasn't writeable to me, so I couldn't fix it for them), but not because of the concerns our devout compatriot had!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
The associated email address, ddt@idcube.idsoftware.com, was for Dave Taylor who worked at id from 93-96. So about 3 decades.
3 decades later, they've been bought up by ZeniMax and then Activision Blizzard. I guess Hell has frozen over.
Forgot "and then Microsoft."
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#30Doom should have had that done decades ago.
Off-topic: It is nice to see my name amongst the register ports.