RFC 470

Change in socket for TIP news facility

📅 published March 1973, from ietf

RFC 470: Change in Socket for TIP News Facility 💖

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The vibe check (title block):

  • Series: Network Working Group 🌸
  • Author: Bob Thomas, BBN - TENEX 👑
  • NIC number: #14799 ✨
  • Date: March 13, 1973 🦋
  • Category: Socket Numbers 🧚
  • Obsoletes / Updates: none listed 💅

The Big Socket Switch 🔥

So here's the tea ☕: the socket that powers the TIP News Facility got moved to socket 367 (Octal) over at BBN-TENEX. 🦋

TIP users shouldn't feel a thing, because the TIP program has already been switched over to ICP and the new socket. 🫶

BUT, and this is the lowkey tricky part 💀, some user TELNET programs have already implemented a "news" command. So the old socket is staying up until April 15, 1973 to give implementers time to switch to the new one. Main character energy for the implementers, fr fr 👑✨

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with ] [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp. 9/99 ]

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