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[Rogi Ocnorb]

I can get to an
Offset>
prompt once I get 3 sessions up, but the other sessions all drop out after about 2 minutes and I can see the auth count drop once for each one..
As long as others (3 or more Auths, I assume) are in, I can keep hitting the Offset prompt. It's been locked at 6 for some time, now.

The Offset results are dynamic as incrementing (or decrementing) the digit entered shifts the binary displayed on the return by 1 place.
Offset zero looks like this on my XP Telnet client:

[Occultus]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I have Rumba available at work, but I've never used its Telnet client.
Trying now with that or the XP client gets me an immediate Offset> prompt but I'm not able to enter a value.

[Stormalong]

The Offset> prompt appears to accept numeric values between 0 and 5914496. Any value entered over 5914496 results in a "EOF Error" (End Of File)

So apparently connecting to that port gives us access to a file that is 59144967 bytes in size. Entering an offset at the prompt will display a chunk of the file from the given offset. I'm assuming that once we enter the correct offset we'll actually get some cleartext.

BTW, I was able to connect to 1031 and get the prompt without connecting to any other ports first.

[danteIL]

[mapmaker]

This is the plaintext in the file (aside from some code snippits and default wiki text) that I found searching for "and", "the", and "tha". This is only the "negative" portion of the file (bottom). I added (CR) where there was a carriage return/line break, so that the original formatting would sort of be preserved. I also busted a few of the end-quote tags so they wouldn't mess up the formatting.

[Phaedra]

Awesome, thanks so much, mapmaker!

Okay, some of this stuff is from after we got there. I'm going to start searching the forums and wiki to figure out what we can eliminate as post-crash. I'll put it in dark red, and who said it afterwards in brackets.

[Lovek]

Ya know what... just ignore this post....

It was just me wondering about things that had already been answered.

[jegger]

Here is the complete text from the binary. I've spent the last 24 hours making sure I've gotten everything, so I'm pretty sure that it's all here. Hope it's not too long:

[mapmaker]

Adding some more stuff I found:

From looking for the string " to":

[jegger]

[SPEC] It came from Outer Space?

[Stormalong]

Some perl code buried in that file kind of looked like MUD commands. So I wondered if there is some kind of perl MUD. Sure enough: http://www.boutell.com/perlmud/

According to that page PerlMUD runs by default on port 4196 and is accessed by a browser, so: http://www.sentryoutpost.com:4196

Tried to create an account but it wouldn't let me. So, back to the PerlMUD page and notice the big security notice about changing the default password. So I try to login with the default ('admin', 'initial') and presto, I'm connected.

Interestingly it shows the auth count (Auth: 18, best 348 Unauth: 0 (0.00% intrusion)) that we know and love from port 1313.

Sadly, it does not seem to respond to any commands I type in after being connected.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I get uncomfortable when these kinds of twists come up.
I wonder if we'll need to choose from one of the preexisting ficticious universities or whether one will be provided for us. Or whether it'll turn out to be "Nothing to see. Move along."

ETA: Attempting to Apply for a chat account using a gmail address gets rejected with:

[StercusMaximus]

All of those bit of astronomical text seemed really creepy to me. Don't most of the elder gods from Lovecraft's fiction come from beyond the stars? perhaps some deep space telescope or probe actually made contact with one of them...

[tipsila]

From the binary posted a page back: