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From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/etc services
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:40:57 -0700 (PDT)
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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