[ntp:questions] OT: Solaris help - TOD service

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jun 13 16:32:07 UTC 2008


Peter Laws wrote:
> Peter Laws wrote:
> 
> 
>> As noted, a bunch of the old "really cool in 1983" protocols like
>> echo (port 7), discard  (8), daytime (13), or the coolest of them
>> all in 1983, chargen (19).
> 
> Got interrupted and missed a fragment:
> 
> As noted, a bunch of the old "really cool in 1983" protocols like echo
> (port 7), discard  (8), daytime (13), or the coolest of them all in
> 1983, chargen (19) are provided by inetd itself as opposed to calling
> an application to service the request.  You can see which ones on a
> Solaris box by looking for "internal" on the rows for those services.
> 
> Telnet to these ports on a Solaris box, especially one that doesn't
> have Solaris 10, and you can see the wild and wonderful things they
> generate. 
> 
> 
> 
> Better.  :-)

Thanks, Peter.

Cheers,
David
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