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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        asami@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/etc services
Message-ID:  <199608230735.AAA14611@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608230708.JAA29310@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 23, 96 09:08:06 am"

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> As Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > >   Add skkserv (1178/tcp) and sj3 (3086/tcp).  They are both Japanese
> > >   kanji input servers.
> > 
> > Have these been assigned in the RFC's/IAN, if not they should probably not
> > go in FreeBSD's /etc/services.  
> 
> I don't have the assigned numbers RFC handy, but i think there are
> already a lot of non-assigned numbers in /etc/services.  After all,
> this file does IMHO not constitute a list of ``blessed'' numbers, but
> merely acts as a human translation tool.  Thus, being exhaustive is
> more important than restricting to assigned numbers.  No harm will
> arise out of this.

You ever tried to decode the output of netstat -a??  When /etc/services
is used as a reverse map to convert port numbers to names these extra
bogus service entries cause folks like me heartache.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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