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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!gw1.att.com!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /etc/services Date: 29 Aug 1995 14:10:03 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <41v73r$rjr@news.bu.edu> References: <41gtu9$knu@news.bu.edu> <87virn9aoy.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <41htce$91l@news.bu.edu> <41k1vt$dsa@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (25 Aug 1995 10:35:09 +0200) honorable J Wunsch, residing at j@bonnie.heep.sax.de wrote: |Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote: |>My impression was, that when inetd hears a connection attempt on the port |>it looks at /etc/services to find out which server to wake up (say telnet). |No, it looks into /etc/inetd.conf at startup time to know on which |ports it has to listen. Once there's an incoming connection on one of |the ports, it invokes the appropriate command. If you've been |specifying the port number as the name of a service, it will be |resolved via /etc/services first. (Btw., don't misuse port # 80, it's |the assigned number for http.) Do not bother if this is annoying, but why can not one server be asso- siated with more then one port? The workaround is obvious, but the philosophy is not clear for me... (I do not run httpd, but I have users who can only get out of their firewalls thru port 80 (-: ) Thank you! -mi -- -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!