Valeriy E. Ushakov --> tech-userlevel (2007-05-13 19:23:54 +0400):
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 15:04:39 +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> 
> > 1. Now a lot of random ports have a name and this makes using /etc/serices
> >    useless, because this implies to use '-n' or whatever flag to get
> >    something usefull out of netstat, ...
> > 2. The penalty to lookup such a huge file seems not worth it
> > 3. The size of /etc increased quiet a bit
> > 4. bin/36313 or whatever else changed
> 
> 5. services_mkdb takes *ages* on a slower machine running off of nfs root.

6. some previously assigned port numbers are unassigned now
   (e.g. Amanda index and tape server, 1008[23]/tcp)


Regards, Jukka

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