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List:       ipfilter
Subject:    Re: Protocol & Services list question
From:       Darren Reed <darrenr () reed ! wattle ! id ! au>
Date:       2000-04-29 1:54:06
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In some email I received from Bill Meigs, sie wrote:
> 
> I'm excited that 3.4 is avialable. A new chance 
> to get into real trouble.
> 
> I was browsing the files there in and compared 
> the etc/services and etc/protocols to the same 
> files provided by OpenBSD. Why are some protocols 
> or services listed in one file but not the other?
> 
> For instance
> 
> Obsd has "ftp-data        20/tcp"
> ipf doesn't 
> 
> ipf has "rje               5/tcp"
> Obsd doesn't
> 
> Is this a trivial question? 
> 
> Could I make up a list of completely arbitrary 
> names without ill effect?

hehehe...depends on what you want to come out of things which use
what's in /etc/services

If you made it say "telnet 22/tcp", then when you do "telnet foo", it's
not going to behave as expected ;)

> Should I replace or merge?

merge.

Darren

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