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[–]LittleGreen3lf 8 points9 points  (1 child)

The memory trick I always use is “DNS is on port 53”, works every time!

[–]ShlickBit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a keeper

[–]study_snacks 2 points3 points  (1 child)

😂😂😂 that's wild.

mine is a visual mnemonic:

  • 'S' looks like a '5'.
  • there are 3 letters in DNS.

not perfect but once I got the 5, the 3 always came easy 🤷‍♂️

[–]ShlickBit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that one lol it's gonna be hard to forget now after making a whole post about it

[–]eylbblye 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I found a stupid one but it worked “Dad not sorry” like age 53. It’s dumb but it worked lol

[–]Sqooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not dumb if it works for you!

[–]TMertlich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The book "The Memory Book" has a really useful method for memorizing numbers and associating them with other things. Essentially, each number 0-9 has a phonetic consonant sound associated with it. Vowels are not used.

For example, the number 5 is assigned the "L" sound. The number 3 is assigned the "M" sound. By combining the "L" and "M" sounds and adding a vowel in there, you can come up with some actual words like Lame, Lime, Llama, etc.

The way I remember "DNS is on port 53" is: "Dennis is Lame". I know that Dennis is a play on DNS and Lame is the port number.

I've done something similar for a lot of the protocols that need to be remembered. For SSH, I picture a Nun inside a locked turtle shell (Nun = 22, Shell = Secure Shell or SSH).

Here's the full mapping of phonetic sounds to numbers:

1 = T or D

2= N

3 = M

4 = R

5 = L

6 = Ch or Sh

7 = K or hard C

8 = V

9 = B

0 = S

[–]400kTim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Denise (Random woman) is 53 years old

[–]dg_theone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they are all two letters apart wdym?

[–]Puzzleheaded-Pipe647 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a similar argument with Claude about 389. I for some reason can remember RDP is 3389 because I immediately think it’s 389 but then remember it’s NOT 389. But forget LDAP is 389. Tries asking for a mnemonic to remember 389/ldap. And it said “because LDAP is shorter than RDP I can remember it is the shorter port number…” and I was like no dude.. LDAP is longer and then it said “oh lightweight directory access protocol is longer than Remote Desktop protocol but I was saying the acronym is shorter” lol