From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 12 12:34:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA25721 for security-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:34:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA25025 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:29:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.4]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA15044; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:27:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group cc: "Jose' Monteiro" , security@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/services In-Reply-To: <199801121741.JAA20876@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/