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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 16:03:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Anatole Shaw <ash@pfmc.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/services
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508160203.28351V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508170201.1484L-100000@gradient.pfmc.net>

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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Anatole Shaw wrote:

> Where does the information in /etc/services come from, especially
> regarding some of the more obscure services?

Those numbers are registered through the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority, or IANA or `Numbers Czar'.  They asked the IANA for a number,
and they gave them one.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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