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I think you're being DV'd because people think you're saying "this is just finger." But I think you're actually reminding people of that old service, which won
by kzhahou 11y ago
I think you're being DV'd because people think you're saying "this is just finger." But I think you're actually reminding people of that old service, which won't be familiar to newer generation, and was ubiquitous back in the day.
- achillean 11y agoAnd there are still 4,000+ servers running it publicly: https://www.shodan.io/report/ohcbBDbi https://www.shodan.io/report/ohcbBDbi For comparison: finger[1] is more common on the Internet than Apache Cassandra[2]. [1] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A79+idle https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A79+idle [2] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Acassandra https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Acassandra
- gknoy 11y agoI still remember reading John Carmack's _amazingly_detailed_ and interesting .plan files back when I was in college.
- adiabatty 11y agoA bunch of game developers had .plan files back in the late 90s, but we Windows users had to visit a third-party site to view John Carmack's .plan because Windows didn't have a finger client. This is better than finger in some ways — it's not multiline-capable as written, but at least clients can consume .txt files with near-universal tools (web browsers).