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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:04:20 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services
Message-ID:  <19990729090420.A98489@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907281735570.15263-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>; from Doug on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 05:59:29PM -0700
References:  <xzpu2qrad76.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907281735570.15263-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>

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On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 05:59:29PM -0700, Doug wrote:
> On 26 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> 	It would also be nice if someone would take another look at
> bringing our /etc/services file more up to date with IANA
> (http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers). I believe
> someone has a PR open on this... :) David O'Brien and I were working on it
> for a while, but we both got busy working on other things. I had a pretty
> good set of scripts going to produce a workable file in services format
> from the IANA list, but what I should really do is write one perl script
> to do it. I fear however that the chance of the file being updated on that
> kind of scale would be very small (it always meets a lot of resistance) so
> I'm not sure it would be worth it. Ideas? Comments?
> 

A question that always baffled me (I'm fairly easy to baffle) is why we've
got some numbers defined as both udp and tcp when the service type is only
one or the other. Does anyone know?

Joe
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