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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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