[ale] port 6969

[James P. Kinney III]

That's the best explanation I've seen yet, Keith. Thanks.

Some of the others were "a daemon for monitoring the temperature of the
soda machine in the computer lab hall". Which also makes some sense as
well.
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 23:18, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > is listed as being for "acmsoda"?!?! WTF is acmsoda? It is also posted
> > on several port number sites as being the port for numerous nefarious
> > things (GateCrasher, IRC 3, Net Controller, Priority,
> > Robi, Sparta, Floodnet, Assasin, Khaos, Ratega,
> > Danton). Offending machine is a mostly unpatched RH 7.3 so that rules
> > out the obvious windows bugs.
> > 
> > But I can find nothing but WTF posts on acmsoda (which is what
> > /etc/services says runs on that port).
> > 
> 
> I'll take a WAG at it and say acmsoda is a Service-On-Demand Architecture (SODA) from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
> 
> http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/jiangx/soda/publications/
> 
> 
> !DSPAM:4179cdb590647232812936!
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
> !DSPAM:4179cdb590647232812936!
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part