From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 12 13:14:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA01461 for security-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:14:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA01455 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.8/8.6.10) id NAA06964; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:11:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801122111.NAA06964@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost, id smtpdaacDDa; Mon Jan 12 13:11:31 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: cschuber To: Robert Watson cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , "Jose' Monteiro" , security@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/services In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:27:39 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:11:30 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > > What does this /etc/services lines mean? > > > > > > #PROBLEMS!=============================================== > > > doom 666/tcp #doom Id Software > > > doom 666/udp #doom Id Software > > > #PROBLEMS!=============================================== > > > > Ports 666, UDP and TCP, have been assiged to doom. This is not a security > > issue. It's just a definition. > > The reason for the #PROBLEMS! comment is that duplicate entries exist for > those port numbers, so they (I assume) have been flagged as such for your > reference. I have not checked the IANA page to see which is the > legitimate one :). The same is true for many of the Oracle services. > > Robert N Watson > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER) ITSD BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET Government of BC Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca "Quit spooling around, JES do it."