[Techtalk] closing ports in /etc/services

[Michelle Murrain]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:15, Caitlyn Martin wrote:

> Many UNIX flavors require a service to be in /etc/services in order for
> it to run.  This may be because of how the service in question is called
> at boot time, but the net effect is that it DOES work.  If the service
> isn't running nothing will answer on that port.

Well, in my distro (debian testing) it worked for some ports (like
daytime, discard) and not for others (like sunrpc).
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