Re: random.org

[Philippe Michel]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 08:34:44AM +0000, Mark Space wrote:

> I installed the latest version of GNU Backgammon from your site and 
> selected random.org as the dice generator. However, I can confirm that 
> dice rolls do not take the numbers from random.org as I have also 
> monitored all the connections to and from the program.
> 
> Can you please check and fix this?

Could you clarify what you monitored and how you deduced the dice rolls 
were not from random.org ?

Do you mean the rolls don't match the numbers generated by random.org ? 
The connection is using https, so it is difficult to verify from the 
outside what was pulled from there.

Or do you mean the connection is not to random.org ? If I try to use it 
as RNG, Immediately after that, I can see that a connection to this site 
had been established:

> netstat -4W
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)    
tcp4       0      0 192.168.42.5.15895     104.20.45.7.https      TIME_WAIT  

On the other hand, www.random.org apparently doesn't have reverse DNS 
records. That's why one sees its address instead of its name in the 
above output.

> host www.random.org
www.random.org has address 104.20.45.7
www.random.org has address 104.20.44.7
www.random.org has IPv6 address 2606:4700:10::6814:2d07
www.random.org has IPv6 address 2606:4700:10::6814:2c07

> host 104.20.45.7
Host 7.45.20.104.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> host 104.20.44.7
Host 7.44.20.104.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)