2012-06-28



Since nearly three weeks, I have a finger daemon  running  on  my
server.   Thanks  to  krt  for reminding me that finger is such a
cool service an that it is worth to provide it.  In  these  three
weeks,  four failed query attempts were logged.  Two of them came
from the students who take part in the lecture  where  I  prepare
the  exercises.   I  requested  them  to  implement RFC 1288, the
finger protocol. ;-) The other two requests  were  foreign.   One
came  from  a  provider in Brasil, fingering ``^V^C''.  The other
came from an Russian provider, asking ``GET / HTTP/1.0''.  No, we
don't speak HTTP on port 79. :-D


For the first time, I came  across  an  Internationalized  Domain
Name  (IDN).  That was the most idiotic idea ever invented.  For-
tunately, they are sparely used.


Apart from that, I'm working on my thesis, not doing much else.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>