time.nist.gov playing word games?
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I came across this on http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1517694&perpage=40&pagenumber=1[^] Any thoughts???? ... I can't figure it out for the life of me ... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- time.nist.gov was quoted as saying: # telnet time.nist.gov 79 Trying 192.43.244.18... Connected to time.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. Hello? M: M: My name is Mary: and my husband's name is Max: We come from Miami: and we sell Mustard:: 379-142-711-264-786-997-737 $ 0 1624 3000 8 1 0 0 Connection closed by foreign host. Every time I connect, I get a different varient of this children's word game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qcha0s
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I came across this on http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1517694&perpage=40&pagenumber=1[^] Any thoughts???? ... I can't figure it out for the life of me ... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- time.nist.gov was quoted as saying: # telnet time.nist.gov 79 Trying 192.43.244.18... Connected to time.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. Hello? M: M: My name is Mary: and my husband's name is Max: We come from Miami: and we sell Mustard:: 379-142-711-264-786-997-737 $ 0 1624 3000 8 1 0 0 Connection closed by foreign host. Every time I connect, I get a different varient of this children's word game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qcha0s
as far as I can tell, it simply might be a Message Of The Day or
motd; an old unix thingy that display a message at logon time. about the numbers, I haven't got a clue.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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as far as I can tell, it simply might be a Message Of The Day or
motd; an old unix thingy that display a message at logon time. about the numbers, I haven't got a clue.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
Maximilien wrote: about the numbers, I haven't got a clue. Those are the agent numbers randomly assigned to monitor your activity on a .gov site. ;) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I came across this on http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1517694&perpage=40&pagenumber=1[^] Any thoughts???? ... I can't figure it out for the life of me ... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- time.nist.gov was quoted as saying: # telnet time.nist.gov 79 Trying 192.43.244.18... Connected to time.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. Hello? M: M: My name is Mary: and my husband's name is Max: We come from Miami: and we sell Mustard:: 379-142-711-264-786-997-737 $ 0 1624 3000 8 1 0 0 Connection closed by foreign host. Every time I connect, I get a different varient of this children's word game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qcha0s
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I came across this on http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1517694&perpage=40&pagenumber=1[^] Any thoughts???? ... I can't figure it out for the life of me ... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- time.nist.gov was quoted as saying: # telnet time.nist.gov 79 Trying 192.43.244.18... Connected to time.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. Hello? M: M: My name is Mary: and my husband's name is Max: We come from Miami: and we sell Mustard:: 379-142-711-264-786-997-737 $ 0 1624 3000 8 1 0 0 Connection closed by foreign host. Every time I connect, I get a different varient of this children's word game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- qcha0s
From Judah Levine: 1. The first text is a pseudo-random text designed to confuse automated search engines (note the strategic colons). There are 16 poems and they are sent in a random sequence. The text is derived from a jump-rope game and has no special meaning. 2. The remaining digits provide internal information on the operation of the server and are used for automated remote monitoring. All NIST servers do this. 3. Most of the digits relate to complicated internal parameters. However, the first 3 values after the $ sign are easy to explain the first is the overall state of the server (0=ok,>0=various failures) the second is the time since the server was last calibrated (in sec), and the third is the nominal interval between calibrations (in sec) the remaining parameters have to do with the internal clock control of the system.
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