[plug] audible ping

[proXy]

On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 13:05, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> I've never heard of the audible ping before, from what I gather it
> just beeps every time it receives a ping packet? Curiously enough,
> yesterday I wrote "bing" and "bingd". Makes a server beep when you
> "bing" it. Very simple, uses netcat and bash:

I was just thinking, didn't we invent bingd just the other day?

> bing is: 
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> echo | nc -q 0 -u $1 6666
> ---
> 
> bingd is:
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> nc -u -l -p 6666 | ( while read ; do echo -ne '\a' ; done )
> ---

Although it should really run on port 2464 (spell bing in telephone
alphanumerics). Trent started writing a real bingd, although I think he
was having some issues with sockets in UDP.

--yXorp

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