From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 29 13: 5:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59E7155F5 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:05:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA22888; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:04:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:04:26 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Doug Cc: Dominic Mitchell , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <19990729210425.A21377@pavilion.net> References: <19990729090420.A98489@pavilion.net> <19990729110131.A50938@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <37A0A76B.F09E9AF1@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37A0A76B.F09E9AF1@gorean.org>; from Doug on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:11:39PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:11:39PM -0700, Doug wrote: > 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. :) Ok - but it's a bit misleading having both values in /etc/services.. Shouldn't be: http 80/tcp www www-http #World Wide Web HTTP http 80/udp www www-http #World Wide Web HTTP Should be: http 80/tcp www www-http #World Wide Web HTTP http 80/udp #[not used] Don't you think? At least that way you don't have to read all of the rfcs to construct a firewall ;). Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message