Inter-MUD protocol
CD Intermud
Original CD Intermud
Historical
Not in common current use
Legacy
The foundational LPC inter-MUD protocol, using peer discovery and game-port offset conventions.
Protocol overview
- First seen
- August 1992
- Present-day status
- Historical
- In use today?
- No common current use was verified.
- Legacy?
- Yes. It may still matter for compatibility or historical systems.
- Layer
- Inter-MUD protocol
- Transport
- UDP full mesh between MUD servers
- Research validated
Current use and fit
Historically important and evolved into Intermud 2; not a recommended greenfield network.
Implementation essentials
- The driver only needs UDP send and receive while the mudlib defines messages.
- Expect unreliable delivery and explicit peer discovery.
Compatibility and safety notes
- Player clients are not participants.
- UDP delivery and source identity require defensive handling.
Original specifications and sources
- MUD Standards preservation Preservation
Where an original site has disappeared, a preservation archive is linked and identified as such. MUDVerse does not claim authorship of the original protocol.