Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!bzs%buit4%bostonu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA From: bzs%buit4%bostonu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Ultrix Network Services Message-ID: <2976@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:09:00 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2976 Posted: Thu Nov 7 16:09:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:22:44 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 14 Don't worry about it, most of the entries are informative so you don't accidently use one of those service ports for your own applications and (for example) find someone else's machine bothering you and getting confused, also if you eventually install the service you will need that port free and the entry in place. Consider it a harmless convenience. For example, we run our own finger software here (and time) at the specified port numbers, so they do exist at some sites. Some will probably never exist, but one has to really understand the issues to re-use them. Think of them like reserved vectors in a unibus address space for devices you don't own. -Barry Shein, Boston University