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Why 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/a

Why 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 ago
That _is_ a much better link.
xyst 2y ago
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.
- 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 ago
  Superstitious 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)
- lupusreal 2y ago
  They threw a fit over Doom then got over it almost 30 years ago ;)
- ziddoap 2y ago
  >but I suspect laymen How many laymen are doing port scans, but also don't know to Google "port 666 doom" when they have a question? I suspect the number is pretty small. Small enough to not really be a concern.
- VladCuciureanu 2y ago
  As a devout Christian who enjoys games like Diablo and Doom, I wanted to offer a different perspective. All of my Christian developer friends (small pool but still large, at around 15 people), including myself, have no issues with tech terms like daemons, master/slave, or killing processes (esp. child processes). Many of us understand the context and humor in technical jargon. In my experience, it's often non-technical people rather than Christians who find these references odd. But then again, what non-technical people run nmap? Just my .02c :^) Edit: casing
  - ughitsaaron 2y ago
    Hristos a înviat! Multumesc, brother.
  - kibibu 2y ago
    Why especially child processes?!
    - ughitsaaron 2y ago
      My hunch is that because `child` is so common place and suggests no semantic reference to oppression.
    - kaycey2022 2y ago
      Because of male models
- ughitsaaron 2y ago
  I think it’s easy to overestimate how thinly skinned most people really are because an exceptional complaint (that’s not easily dismissible) commands attention. (This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, insofar as it’s indicative of sympathy and sensitivity.)
rovr138 2y ago
https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/... mdqs 666 tcp mdqs 666 udp doom 666 tcp doom Id Software [ddt] [ddt] doom 666 udp doom Id Software [ddt] [ddt]

ughitsaaron 2y ago

That _is_ a much better link.

xyst 2y ago

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.

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 ago
Superstitious 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)
lupusreal 2y ago
They threw a fit over Doom then got over it almost 30 years ago ;)
ziddoap 2y ago
>but I suspect laymen How many laymen are doing port scans, but also don't know to Google "port 666 doom" when they have a question? I suspect the number is pretty small. Small enough to not really be a concern.
VladCuciureanu 2y ago
As a devout Christian who enjoys games like Diablo and Doom, I wanted to offer a different perspective. All of my Christian developer friends (small pool but still large, at around 15 people), including myself, have no issues with tech terms like daemons, master/slave, or killing processes (esp. child processes). Many of us understand the context and humor in technical jargon. In my experience, it's often non-technical people rather than Christians who find these references odd. But then again, what non-technical people run nmap? Just my .02c :^) Edit: casing
- ughitsaaron 2y ago
  Hristos a înviat! Multumesc, brother.
- kibibu 2y ago
  Why especially child processes?!
  - ughitsaaron 2y ago
    My hunch is that because `child` is so common place and suggests no semantic reference to oppression.
  - kaycey2022 2y ago
    Because of male models
ughitsaaron 2y ago
I think it’s easy to overestimate how thinly skinned most people really are because an exceptional complaint (that’s not easily dismissible) commands attention. (This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, insofar as it’s indicative of sympathy and sensitivity.)

rovr138 2y ago

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/... mdqs 666 tcp mdqs 666 udp doom 666 tcp doom Id Software [ddt] [ddt] doom 666 udp doom Id Software [ddt] [ddt]