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Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
- jsheard 2y ago616, the "other" number of the beast, was officially registered to SCO. Maybe also fitting in hindsight.
- CalRobert 2y agoFor 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago> was dismissed with prejudice; SCO filed an appeal later that month. Doesn't "with prejudice" mean no appeal?
- chowells 2y agoNo. It means that a case for the same incident cannot be filed again. When a case is dismissed without prejudice, it can be refiled if the plaintiff thinks they can make a better case at some future point.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoThanks for clearing that up.
- alias_neo 2y agoEven better, is that > SCO filed an appeal later that month. Is the end of the timeline... and that was 2016.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI forgot about this entirely. I remember it being a big fear, but I don't recall all the issues. I think there were even Distros that had versions accounting for what they didn't need from SCO.
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoIf you're interested in getting WAY more detail on all of the aspects of that lawsuit, there was a truly amaazing and groundbreaking legal blog at the time called "Groklaw," run by a paralegal who was really great at breaking down every tiny move in the trial and contextualizing it to the larger battle. Was probably the start of my interest in following legal proceedings. She was so good at it that at one point SCO tried to depose her, believing that she was actually a front for IBM. The blog was sadly shut down in 2013 over privacy concerns, but it's still there, archived, although it probably isn't nearly as fun if you know the ending.
- mrandish 2y agoOh, wow! I'd totally forgotten about GrokLaw. It was indeed a great (and regular) read back in the day.
- sybercecurity 2y agoWhy not also include the IANA link: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?&page=13 https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
- ughitsaaron 2y agoThat _is_ a much better link.
- xyst 2y agoSo 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.
- mjg59 2y ago"now"? It's been registered that way since the 90s.
- dspillett 2y ago> 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!
- SassyBird 2y agoSuperstitious people have been known to throw fits upon seeing the FreeBSD beastie logo: <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-November/006642.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-Novemb...> See also: <https://web.archive.org/web/20040821031811/http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/daemon.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040821031811/http://monster-is...> (that one is from 1999)
- 4ad 2y agoIt has been assigned to Doom for a very long time. A decade at least (maybe decades?).
- imwillofficial 2y agoDecades at least
- jvolkman 2y agoThe associated email address, ddt@idcube.idsoftware.com, was for Dave Taylor who worked at id from 93-96. So about 3 decades.
- resource_waste 2y agoDoes 'officially' do anything?
- tialaramex 2y agoWell, 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.
- crtasm 2y agoNone of mine do, but now I'm going to add this.
- zeroxfe 2y agoYes, it means that you can reliably expect most UNIX/Linux systems (possibly even most OSs with IP stacks) to resolve the port "doom" to 666.
- wumbo 2y ago[flagged]
- dylan604 2y ago"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. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjKPLc5qD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjKPLc5qD0
- alias_neo 2y agoHow have I never heard this?! What a tune, thanks for the link!
- darylfritz 2y agoNote: that whole intro is sampled from Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf [0] [0] https://youtu.be/akhuHYih8Mo?si=eYCyrjvRcdpkJg27 https://youtu.be/akhuHYih8Mo?si=eYCyrjvRcdpkJg27
- dylan604 2y agoI felt the Orbital song had a little more relevance to the digital part of the discussion
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoDo Doom multiplayer servers still use that port?
- egberts1 2y agoMaybe, 9,000+ port 666 opened. https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=666 https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=666
- daveslash 2y agoIn my RnD testing, when I just need an arbitrary port, 666 is my go to. (a) It's almost never used by anything else and (b) <3 Doom Unfortunately, I showed some software in a sprint demo once, using 666 as an arbitrary port. I was very clear that this port can be anything, because the software was made to be configurable by the user, and of course the project manager wrote it down and put it in the "official" and released documentation that the customer must use port 666. facepalm.
- solardev 2y agoThis is how cults begin.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoClassic Id gang having fun where they could. The address of the office at their original building location was suite no.666.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoIt's also shared by mdqs. What's that?
- aarestad 2y agoBest guess from Duckin' is an old military proposal called "Multiple Device Queuing System" https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/papers/82usenix-mdqs/usenix.html https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/papers/82usenix-mdqs/usenix.h...
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- egberts1 2y agoDoom should have had that done decades ago. Off-topic: It is nice to see my name amongst the register ports.
- Waterluvian 2y agoThe idea of globally assigning ports to specific things feels so retro. Back when the world was a lot smaller. Today it still makes abundant sense for more generic concepts like where you do HTTP or SSH but to register them to specific companies is amusing and nostalgic.
- brazzy 2y agoI wonder how many protocols/servers that are "officially registered" there are by now completely out of use (as in, truly not actively used by anyone on the planet). And how many of the listed email addresses still work.
- dfox 2y agoMost of the registered ports are for long forgotten services. This is compounded by the fact that many such services used multiple ports.
- throwitaway222 2y agoShouldn't that be pruned at this point...
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- ydnaclementine 2y agoBased
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