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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!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: 30 Aug 1995 23:42:20 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <422t0s$mip@news.bu.edu> References: <41gtu9$knu@news.bu.edu> <41htce$91l@news.bu.edu> <41k1vt$dsa@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <41v73r$rjr@news.bu.edu> <id.DHYM1.YFC@nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (Wed, 30 Aug 1995 20:48:19 GMT) honorable Peter da Silva, residing at peter@nmti.com wrote: |It can be. All /etc/services is is a mnemonic device for programs like |inetd and telnet. Telnet will happily talk on any port you want and telnetd |will happily talk on any port that inetd asks it to... Yes, and that's what I mentioned by 'workaround'. The philosofy is what is unclear to me... Why can not I just use the SAME name? Because of the implementation of inetd? -mi -- И пусть никто не уйдёт обиженным... -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!