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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /etc/services Date: 24 Aug 1995 17:35:22 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <41id8q$f9s@news.bu.edu> References: <41gtu9$knu@news.bu.edu> <87virn9aoy.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <87spmr8gzv.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (24 Aug 1995 11:21:24 -0400) honorable Robert Sanders, residing at rsanders@mindspring.com wrote: |> Aga, that explains the current behavior, but does not seem reasonable... |> Why can not same service sit and wait for few ports? Seems like a design |> problem to me... |Define "service". Telnet can sit and wait on as many ports as you |wish, you just have to give it as many names. Name them something |like telnet-23, telnet-4355, ..., telnet-X. I'll agree that it isn't |convenient to have to modify *two* files to do that, but there's no |real loss of functionality. Well, except for the "internal" services, |but there's not much need to put those on alternate ports. Yes! "many names" is what I started with... Why do I need to name the same thing differently to be able to put it on different ports -- was my original question. Thanks, -mi -- -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!