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| − | '''/etc/services''' is a system file that details what named services run on which numeric ports. | + | '''/etc/services''' is a system file that details what named services run on which numeric ports. The services file contains information regarding the known services available in the Internet. For each service a single line should be present with the following information: |
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| + | official_service_name port number / protocol name aliases | ||
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| + | For example, say you want to know what port and protocol [[mdns]] might use: | ||
| + | dave@abulafia % cat /etc/services | grep dns | ||
| + | dnsix 90/tcp #DNSIX Securit Attribute Token Map | ||
| + | dnsix 90/udp #DNSIX Securit Attribute Token Map | ||
| + | sdnskmp 558/tcp | ||
| + | sdnskmp 558/udp | ||
| + | mdns 5353/tcp #Multicast DNS | ||
| + | mdns 5353/udp #Multicast DNS | ||
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You may find it tempting to inject information about every IANA port you know about into this file, but DON'T - some of the system daemons rely on the information in this file to run, and you may very well confuse them into inoperability if you dump tons of non-FreeBSD-related information into this file. I personally figured this out the hard way when I replaced a system's /etc/services file with one I downloaded from the 'net, and it caused [[natd]] to refuse to start until I replaced my hacked-up copy with a stock copy. | You may find it tempting to inject information about every IANA port you know about into this file, but DON'T - some of the system daemons rely on the information in this file to run, and you may very well confuse them into inoperability if you dump tons of non-FreeBSD-related information into this file. I personally figured this out the hard way when I replaced a system's /etc/services file with one I downloaded from the 'net, and it caused [[natd]] to refuse to start until I replaced my hacked-up copy with a stock copy. | ||
| − | [[Category:Important Config Files]] | + | [[Category:Important Config Files|Services]] |
| + | [[Category: FreeBSD Terminology]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:24, 4 May 2006
/etc/services is a system file that details what named services run on which numeric ports. The services file contains information regarding the known services available in the Internet. For each service a single line should be present with the following information:
official_service_name port number / protocol name aliases
For example, say you want to know what port and protocol mdns might use:
dave@abulafia % cat /etc/services | grep dns dnsix 90/tcp #DNSIX Securit Attribute Token Map dnsix 90/udp #DNSIX Securit Attribute Token Map sdnskmp 558/tcp sdnskmp 558/udp mdns 5353/tcp #Multicast DNS mdns 5353/udp #Multicast DNS
You may find it tempting to inject information about every IANA port you know about into this file, but DON'T - some of the system daemons rely on the information in this file to run, and you may very well confuse them into inoperability if you dump tons of non-FreeBSD-related information into this file. I personally figured this out the hard way when I replaced a system's /etc/services file with one I downloaded from the 'net, and it caused natd to refuse to start until I replaced my hacked-up copy with a stock copy.
