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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] /etc/services file for "port name resolvings"?

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:55:25 +0200
Luis EG Ontanon schrieb:
Wow!
Even /etc/services from Mac OS/X (in turn taken from FreeBSD) has many
more entries.

[id-est:ws/trunk/wiretap] lego% sed 's/#.*//; s/[ \t]+//;'
/etc/services | grep -v -c '^$'
8059
[id-est:ws/trunk/wiretap] lego% sed 's/#.*//; s/[ \t]+//;'
../../../nmap-4.20/nmap-services | grep -v -c '^$'
2273

This has no (c) notice so I believe we we can use it.
$ sed 's/#.*//; s/[ \t]+//;' port-numbers | grep -v -c '^$'
10285

;-)

I would guess the MAC OS/X file is an older version of the IANA port-numbers file.

The IANA file itself also doesn't have a copyright notice, so we might simply use it ...

Regards, ULFL