Is there more complete (and official) version of /etc/services ? I
would like to know what port is used for what program.

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In news:bn9gq3$ujj7l$1@ID-99293.news.uni-berlin.de,
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> rambled:

> Is there more complete (and official) version of /etc/services ? I
> would like to know what port is used for what program.

Perhaps you will be lucky googling for "list of ports" ?

Billy

On 23 Oct 2003 21:22:12 GMT,
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Is there more complete (and official) version of /etc/services ?

The offical one can be found via the url listed in /etc/services:
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>

Slackware seems to take its /etc/services via FreeBSD. An updated copy
of it can be found here:
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/services>

Also, nmap comes with its own '/etc/services', which is at
</usr/share/nmap/nmap-services>

HTH.

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Mark Hill <mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2003 21:22:12 GMT,
> William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> Is there more complete (and official) version of /etc/services ?
>
> The offical one can be found via the url listed in /etc/services:
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>

Thanks, Mark. I'm running Slackware-8.0 and the URL is not included.

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Linux solution for data management and processing.

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William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:

>>> Is there more complete (and official) version of /etc/services ?

>> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>

> Thanks, Mark. I'm running Slackware-8.0 and the URL is not included.

On the surface, apparently a good suggestion, but...

One of the problems with using a comprehensive list is that admins
_will_ up wasting _a lot_ of time grepping through the new
/etc/services playing "What Port Is That"?

Rule of thumb: If you aren't running it or accessing it, you don't need
to know it's official name.

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In <bn9gq3$ujj7l$1@ID-99293.news.uni-berlin.de>, William Park wrote:

> Is there more complete (and official) version of /etc/services ? I would
> like to know what port is used for what program.

Not really what you were asking, but...
http://isc.sans.org/

All about a specific port is given by (e.g. 80):
http://isc.sans.org/port_details.html?port=80

Have a nice day
Franz

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Franz M. Sauerzopf
Atominstitut, TU Wien

On 24 Oct 2003 11:56:03 GMT,
George Georgakis <geeg@tripleg.GO.AWAY.SPAMMERS.net.au> wrote:

[ <http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers> ]
>
> One of the problems with using a comprehensive list is that admins
> _will_ up wasting _a lot_ of time grepping through the new
> /etc/services playing "What Port Is That"?

That's true, and the original iana.org list seems to be much bigger the
the FreeBSD edited one. (I guess that has something to do with why Slack
uses the latter).

> Rule of thumb: If you aren't running it or accessing it, you don't need
> to know it's official name.

I usually need to know what port is what to find out what service is
running. For that purpose, I'm now more inclined to use nmap's -sV
option, which seems to be more accurate for this purpose.



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