From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 29 1: 5:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEF414C3F for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA99359; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:04:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:04:20 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Doug Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services Message-ID: <19990729090420.A98489@pavilion.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 05:59:29PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message