What is "network blackjack" UDP 1025?

[Costas Paleatsos]

Hello group:

Does anyone know what the purpose and use of UDP port 1025 is? The IANA
description calls it Network Blackjack (??).

Plz help; would appreciate any good URL on this, Thanks, Costas

[Tr...@email.fake]

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway
Costas Paleatsos <cos...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

As posted by Matt Steinhoff recently on this very news group

" I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that we're
over-thinking this one. The port is listed as being involved
in a telnet session. The telnet port is 21. There's a card
game, the goal of which is to have cards totalling 21 in
your hand. The game's name is blackjack.
Someone, I'd be willing to bet, thought it would be funny
to call port 21 blackjack and added it to /etc/services.

Matt "

Trog Woolley
(A Croweater languishing in Pommie Land)

[Paul Thompson]

I agree. I encountered the situation where someone with more enthusiasm than
knowledge did a netstat -t on my R50 and came to conclusion that people were
extensively playing network blackjack. Instead, the IP stack of some of
the PC's telnetted into my system negotiated TCP port 1025 as the port on
which to communicate on their end to 21 on my end. /etc/services 'helpfully'
translated the port into blackjack.

Paul

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