Inter-MUD protocol

MUSHLink

MUSHLink Inter-MUD Protocol

Historical Not in common current use Legacy

Connects worlds through a privileged bot account and special in-game commands rather than native outbound networking.

Protocol overview

First seen
Date not established
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
Central server logs into each MUSH as a bot
Research validated

Current use and fit

A clever historical MUSH integration pattern with no broad contemporary deployment verified.

Implementation essentials

  • Restrict the bot account to the minimum required commands.
  • Validate all commands arriving from the bridge.

Compatibility and safety notes

  • A compromised central service receives an authenticated in-game foothold.
  • The bot session is a security boundary, not ordinary player traffic.

Original specifications and sources

Where an original site has disappeared, a preservation archive is linked and identified as such. MUDVerse does not claim authorship of the original protocol.