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From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To: Simon Lindgren <lindgren@istudio.no>
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Subject: Re: UNIX Network Ports - names?
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Simon Lindgren wrote:

> doing a "netstat" on my FreeBSD 2.1.6 server, I discover all ports
> having their own names... 80 is http (I got that one ;) but several
> have quite strange names - "chromagrafx", "fc-ser", "bytex" etc etc...
> 
> Where do these come from? Where can I read about their significance?
> What configuration file specifies them?

/etc/services