On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: >> This diff allows users to use the name of a service in /etc/services >> instead of a port number when using netcat. Hopefully, this will make >> using netcat easier for some users. > > I don't see how it makes it easier. There are a number of netcat > versions out there, mostly trying to be somewhat compatible. On a > whim, this introduces an incompatibility --> scripts become less > portable.
Well, we would rather that people use nc than openssl s_client or telnet ...and both those do service name lookup... Philip Guenther
