FiveNinjas

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   by FiveNinjas 3y ago

   Yup - you can do a lot with a TXT record. dig txt @vps7.pgregg.com artofwar.pgregg.com |sed 's/" "//g' |sed 's/`n/\n/g' |less
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   by FiveNinjas 6y ago

   Hmmm, I think the premise of the blog post is incorrect. It is positing that the correct behaviour is to interpret 010 as octal and so is the value 8. This is not correct. The octal behaviour comes from the original BSD inet_aton function
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   by FiveNinjas 6y ago

   you mean like Skype. There's nothing specially 'email' about this other than it is a bad mix up of a P2P communication app and a supposedly 'trusted' version of SMTP.
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   by FiveNinjas 6y ago

   took me way too long to find out that the T in TMTP stood for Trusted. I was looking for protocol descriptions in how this could work. Author said people would be more impressed by code - but I think a protocol spec along with a reference i