On 2014/07/15 17:17, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > Well it depends what policy we want. Looking at the file most entries > > > have both even if only one protocol is effectively in use. > > > > Looking at the file though, most of those are older entries - I think > > Yes. The reason is this: > " > # Note that it is presently the policy of IANA to assign a single well-known > # port number for both TCP and UDP; hence, most entries here have two entries > # even if the protocol doesn't support UDP operations. > " > > > new entries should be specific, and where we have knowledge of the > > protocols we should remove silly old ones. BGP, Gopher, HTTP, POP, > > and IMAP over UDP look like good candidates for example.. > > I am all in favor of cleaning this file and removing useless entries. > But be careful, this is not a user-editable file anymore,
It isn't? Oh dear...
