Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:40:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, 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: <199608231340.GAA12817@white.dogwood.com> In-Reply-To: <199608230735.AAA14611@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Aug 23, 96 00:35:26 am"
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Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > 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. I've often wondered if the services file shouldn't be generated from a giant list of port and rpc program numbers by a script that looks at inetd.conf to determine what services you're actually using. More than a couple of times I've been up late at night trying to figure out why a 'chromagrafx' port is connecting to a 'submitserver' port... -- Dave Cornejo - Dogwood Media, Fremont, California
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