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To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services
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Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > A question that always baffled me (I'm fairly easy to baffle) is why we've
> > got some numbers defined as both udp and tcp when the service type is only
> > one or the other. Does anyone know?
> 
> Probably because the IANA specifies them that way.  I think that they
> try to keep both UDP and TCP ports the same, "just in case".  There
> might be a better explanation in rfc1700 (assigned numbers)

	Nope, that is the official reason. Cheesy-poofs for you. :)

Doug


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