all this makes sense. thank you. i might be dense, but what's the problem with inetd exactly?
On 3/5/24, a...@9srv.net <a...@9srv.net> wrote: > I wonder what percentage of people who reply are going to be running a > finger server they wrote. :-) My tcp79 comes from my implementation, > here: http://txtpunk.com/finger/index.html > > I think we've got enough interoperable unicode-aware implementations we can > start working on the update to the RFC now. > > I have a service which allows some unix hosts I run to submit vac scores > after they perform a backup to my venti; a slightly outdated version is > here: https://9p.io/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/tcp17038 > > tcp411 calls pqsrv, I think the same version as on the "extra" > page: http://9p.io/sources/extra/ > > I usually have at least one "poor man's nat traversal" thing running with > aux/trampoline. > > I love how easy aux/listen makes sticking trivial little services up on the > net. I used to have one that provided a menu of MUDs to connect to. Another > gave the weather, as the telnet service at Weather Underground started to go > unmaintained (of course, mine used darksky, which is now also defunct). I > made a little text-based zine server (inspired by Cara > Esten's https://github.com/caraesten/dial_a_zine, which powered the things > at anewsession.com); that's up, although very lightly > used: http://txtpunk.com/zine/ <http://txtpunk.com/zine/index.html> > > Before life got away from me last year, I was trying to get a VoIP bridge > working so I could plug a POTS line into my modem and get telcodata working > again. I think 'cp tcp2323 telcodata' should be enough to make that zine > server dialable. (Sadly, I've only gotten the bridge to *place* calls over > my crummy DSL line.) > > As a young unix sysadmin back in the 1900s, aux/listen was one of the first > things that caught my eye about Plan 9, in comparison to inetd and the > direction everyone else was headed from there. Certainly the growth (in > multiple senses) of systemd has only tightened my grip on that particular > tool. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf73851503467346f-M32b1f1b0e1eeedd875aee9d9 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
