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Date:      Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:50:36 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, committers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za
Subject:   Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services 
Message-ID:  <199908021650.KAA06933@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Aug 1999 13:22:38 %2B0200." <xzpoggq2zr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 
References:  <xzpoggq2zr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>  <199908021116.HAA06757@pcnet1.pcnet.com> 

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In message <xzpoggq2zr5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> writes:
: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
: > > The correct way to do this is to fix getservbyname() so it accepts
: > > port numbers.
: > Are you sure this is what you want?

I'm 100% positive that I want this.

: >                                      It may allow an application to
: > use a port number that would otherwise be invalid.

I think he's saying that you could run telnet on port 25, which is
reserved for mail.

I say that I don't care if it allows this.  In fact, I want to be able 
to do things like that...

Warner


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