On 2013-05-07 09:16, Corey Quinn wrote:
"What happens when you type 'telnet example.com http"
Huh. I've been doing this for a decade and somehow never tumbled on to telnet
performing /etc/service lookups. Makes perfect sense in retrospect, this is
just one of those things I somehow missed. Thanks-- and I'm glad I wasn't
interviewing with you at the time!
Though to be fair, explicit port declaration works just fine and dandy!
Funny, I'm the other way around.... Everyday I wished that browser developers
made services lookups (don't know how they'd do that on non-UNIX platform
though). "ipp for Internet Printing Protocol" is a lot easier to remember than
some random number! I have to grep ipp /etc/services every time I want to
connect to a cups server.
--
Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/
Unix/Linux and Python specialist in Calgary.
http://blog.zioup.org/
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