On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 05:22:43PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> But, as I said, I didn't read the source.  :)  And your explanation
> makes much more sense.  So, why _does_ telnetd use /etc/services ???

  Well, I _did_ read the source.  :)  The (only?) reason telnetd uses
getservbyname() (which uses /etc/services) is so that one can
say telnetd -debug <port> and specify a name for the port
instead of a number.  Same goes for telnet.

  Brian
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