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Subject: Re: inetd needs "discard" service in /etc/services 
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> I would like to commit the following patch.  It changes the port from
> discard to syslog and documents the dependency.  I choose syslog because
> it really does need to be in /etc/services on most machines since it
> starts before NIS.  I'll also file a PR against inetd in hopes that
> someone gets board enough to fix it some day.

getaddrinfo can also accept numeric service names (ie. port numbers
in the case of UDP/TCP). I wonder if it would be better to just
replace the service name with "1" or some such? I guess that would
also fix your problem.

	David.