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A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame
and a little less than his share of the credit | John C. Maxwell
Connection closed by foreign host.
Again I issue the command:
telnet ota.iambic.com 17
This time I get back:
Trying 64.124.71.12...
Connected to ota.iambic.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. | Alan J.
Perlis
Connection closed by foreign host.
So we see that, likely, on port 17/tcp of the machine with Internet
address 64.124.71.12, there is a qotd daemon running, which, in
accordance with protocol, when we ask it, hands us a random quote of
the day.
Now we adduce another document, the RFC for qotd. An Internet RFC, or
request for comment, is a document which describes a protocol (or
another useful standard thing) for use on the Net. The RFC for quote
of the day has number 865, and may be found at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc865
RFC 865 is short, as RFCs go. Here is the whole document:
Network Working Group J. Postel
Request for <strong>Comments</strong>: 865 ISI
May 1983
Quote of the Day Protocol
This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. Hosts on
the ARPA Internet that choose to implement a Quote of the Day Protocol
are expected to adopt and implement this standard.
A useful debugging and measurement tool is a quote of the day service.
A quote of the day service simply sends a short message without regard
to the input.
TCP Based Character Generator Service
One quote of the day service is defined as a connection based
application on TCP. A server listens for TCP connections on TCP port
17. Once a connection is established a short message is sent out the
connection (and any data received is thrown away). The service
closes the connection after sending the quote.
UDP Based Character Generator Service