Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:50:06 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, asami@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc services Message-ID: <3387.840808206@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:40:57 PDT." <199608231340.GAA12817@white.dogwood.com>
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In message <199608231340.GAA12817@white.dogwood.com>, Dave Cornejo writes: >I've often wondered if the services file shouldn't be generated from a >giant list of port and rpc program numbers by a script that looks at >inetd.conf to determine what services you're actually using. > >More than a couple of times I've been up late at night trying to >figure out why a 'chromagrafx' port is connecting to a 'submitserver' >port... Wrong solution. Each socket should have a flag that tells if it was bound to a specific address/port or defaulted to something the kernel gave it. That way netstat would know not to do a service resolution on the sockets that are anonymous. Should be an easy thing to do :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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