12 points Bender 3 hours ago 13 comments
cowlevel 1 hour ago | parent
And why do we want finger to exist?
Bender 1 hour ago | parent
Its just a private fork of an open source anonymous image board. I had a static blog for it but I got bored and moved all my blog posts to the image board. Probably a rather unorthodox experiment. The reply button is at the bottom right. I might change that.
And why do we want finger to exist?
There were discussions in the past about the finger service and how hardly anyone runs it any more and even less likely to be found on the open internet. DNS seemed like a good replacement for it to me as more and more people have domains now and authoritative DNS servers are likely to be more secure and distributed I think. Maybe one day specific groups of people do something like this in place of sites like X. half kidding
Now instead of having a special purpose client, one need only query a DNS record. In this case I use "dig" as the example but there are other DNS tools people might prefer to use.
GalaxyNova 1 hour ago | parent
warkdarrior 1 hour ago | parent
Bender 1 hour ago | parent
cowlevel 56 minutes ago | parent
Bender 53 minutes ago | parent
cowlevel 41 minutes ago | parent
spauldo 12 minutes ago | parent
You can read about it in RFC 742.
assimpleaspossi 11 minutes ago | parent
adzm 48 minutes ago | parent
What does this mean, I see a bunch in the lookup but I don't understand the ddos part
Bender 42 minutes ago | parent
JdeBP 43 minutes ago | parent
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44916853
The real challenge is not finding another channel for transmitting personal information. It is finding something else for the FINGER protocol to do. (-: