The Doom Port - 666

[WhiteZero]

Not sure how many of you know about this, but id Software's Doom game has an offical port registered to it. It was offically reserved way back with the original games, used for network play.

Appropriately enough the reserved port number is 666.
You can see for yourself by opening up the following file in a text editor:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

rmonitor 560/udp rmonitord
monitor 561/udp
ldaps 636/tcp sldap #LDAP over TLS/SSL
doom 666/tcp #Doom Id Software
doom 666/udp #Doom Id Software
kerberos-adm 749/tcp #Kerberos


awesome find! lol, checked it out myself

telling all my friends lawl

 

[Adabiviak]

That's great!

 

[Reaktor4]

heh they got the number wrong... its 616

 

[Naudian]

heh they got the number wrong... its 616

uuhh? I don't get it :[

 

[Kschreck]

heh they got the number wrong... its 616

He's talking about the new found research.

 

[Reaktor4]

well its not really new..... i think......

 

[Cole]

Thats a kinda cool find.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

lol Nice Find!

 

[Garfield_]

616 is pretty new, devils real and newly found number. They found it in the bible but cant remember how exactly.

 

[Sulkdodds]

An upside-down crucifix daubed in blood on Page 616, maybe? :E