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From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Bill White )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Question about some services in /etc/services
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:13:56 GMT
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	I have a question about some of the "non-obvious" services in
the /etc/services file.  Notably, ...

	- What exactly is the *purpose* of whois (43/tcp)?

	- What is pop (109/tcp) and sftp (115/tcp)?

	- Is netwall (533/udp) implemented?  I would hope there's *some*
form of security here so Joe Average Random User can't broadcast a message
to every system from California to Canada!

	- What is "conference" (531/tcp)?  It's listed as "chat", but I
haven't heard anything about it.


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