a...@9srv.net writes:
> I wonder what percentage of people who reply are going to be running a finger > server they wrote. :-) Indeed, it may be why I can't seem to find a good, standard implementation: there are as many implementations as servers. > My tcp79 comes from my implementation, here: > http://txtpunk.com/finger/index.html > Your finger program is a nice illustration of /net usage. Hard to port to Linux though ;) Thanks for making me aware of twtxt. > > 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 after they perform a backup to my venti; a slightly outdated version is here: 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 > Nice :) Your tcp80 is also short and to the point. > > 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. > What an aptly named program. > > 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/ > Well, one more thing on the to-read queue... > > 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 / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink Thank you for all these pointers :) ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf73851503467346f-Mbe2d89455c018e411194cd7d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
