On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:11:39PM -0700, Doug wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > > A question that always baffled me (I'm fairly easy to baffle) is why we've
> > > got some numbers defined as both udp and tcp when the service type is only
> > > one or the other. Does anyone know?
> >
> > Probably because the IANA specifies them that way. I think that they
> > try to keep both UDP and TCP ports the same, "just in case". There
> > might be a better explanation in rfc1700 (assigned numbers)
>
> Nope, that is the official reason. Cheesy-poofs for you. :)
Ok - but it's a bit misleading having both values in /etc/services..
Shouldn't be:
http 80/tcp www www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
http 80/udp www www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
Should be:
http 80/tcp www www-http #World Wide Web HTTP
http 80/udp #[not used]
Don't you think? At least that way you don't have to read all of the
rfcs to construct a firewall ;).
Joe
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