I’ve been multitasking heavily all day. At one point I used my console connection to this server to look up some port-to-service mappings. (Firewall logs at my employer’s colocation facility showed a couple of minor anomalies. I was tasked with tracking them down.) The grep session gave me more results than I needed, but I did find the desired information so I left the terminal session be and moved on to other things.

I just came back from foraging for foodstuffs, sat down, looked at the laptop screen and thought for a moment that my server had become possessed by LOLcats. At the tail end of the results from earlier, something that originally escaped my notice:

nomdb 13786/tcp # Veritas-nomdb

nomdb 13786/udp # Veritas-nomdb

Perhaps I’ve been reading too many cat macros, because I should not be seeing “NOM NOM NOM NOM” when perusing the /etc/services file…