From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 01:56:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 01:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15775 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 01:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26467; Sat, 9 May 1998 01:56:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35541A39.5C13F370@dal.net> Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 01:56:25 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anatole Shaw CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/services References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anatole Shaw wrote: > > Where does the information in /etc/services come from, especially > regarding some of the more obscure services? Well it SHOULD come from IANA as several people have noted. The info that we actually have in the file is a fairly interesting mix of out of date info, custom hacks and a solid percentage of stuff that's actually right. :) http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers for more info if you're interested. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message