Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: "Jose' Monteiro" <jm@pluriproj.pt>, security@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/services Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112152656.282B-100000@cyrus.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199801121741.JAA20876@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > What does this /etc/services lines mean? > > > > #PROBLEMS!=============================================== > > doom 666/tcp #doom Id Software > > doom 666/udp #doom Id Software > > #PROBLEMS!=============================================== > > Ports 666, UDP and TCP, have been assiged to doom. This is not a security > issue. It's just a definition. The reason for the #PROBLEMS! comment is that duplicate entries exist for those port numbers, so they (I assume) have been flagged as such for your reference. I have not checked the IANA page to see which is the legitimate one :). Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/
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