Well, as for the port, that's entirely possible, he indicated it was doing SLIP,
so it must be hooked up to a serial port of a unix box acting as a router for
it.  Only tcpip packets meant for the pic will get to it.  He did NOT implement
ftp, he just named a 'directory' as /ipic/ftpsite
He did say that he made a telnet on it, though, so i'm not so sure.

If it is a fake, he went to an awful lot of trouble to make sure that when the
heavy loads came it didn't serve.  His webpage comes right up, but the PIC
doesn't when more than a few people query it...

-Adam

Tim Hamel wrote:
>
> I knew it!! If this chip were really a server, wouldn't it have it's own IP
> addy? instead of it being eternity.cs.umass.edu PORT 9080. And for the FTP
> server he supposedly stuck on the chip -- that alone would require a few KB's.
>
> This is such a tragedy, I actually thought someone did it =(
>
> Tim Hamel
>
> In a message dated 7/14/99 2:17:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, johnm@MAGNET.COM
> writes:
>
> > >   [wrhodes@lazlo wrhodes]$ telnet eternity.cs.umass.edu 9080
> >  >   Trying 128.119.41.46...
> >  >   Connected to eternity.cs.umass.edu.
> >  >   Escape character is '^]'.
> >  >   HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
> >  >   Date: Wed Jul 14 15:50:36 EDT 1999
> >  >   Server: iPic Redirect+Log Hack/1.0
> >  >   MIME-Version: 1.0
> >  >   Content-Length: 0
> >  >   Location: http://sprung.cs.umass.edu:4176
> >  >   Connection closed by foreign host.
> >  >
> >  > There you have it: The smallest server redirect in the world.
> >  >
> >  > -B