Subj : Echo Traffic
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Richard Town
Date : Sat Mar 23 2002 05:49 am

 -=> Quoting Stewart Honsberger to Richard Town <=-

 RT> So your analagy means Telnet is always on door #23, and HTTP on door #80,
 RT> etc?  If so, how come it's configurable?  What's the convention?
 SH> Get it?

Getting there

 RT> I can't go on just doing that coz everyone else does it!
 SH> Actually, that's how the Internet works. People agree on a set of
 SH> standards and then proceed to meet them. Otherwise the world would be
 SH> perpetually unconnected.

I meant without knowing why!

 SH> It's cooperation, not conformity.

Alright

 RT> Not that the textbooks are much help either.  New Riders MCSE for 
 RT> 70-068 only talks about comms ports, and the earlier covering 70-58 
 RT> doesn't even have Port listed in its index!
 SH> When you're bored, hit http://blackdeath.2y.net/services.txt
 SH> That's a copy of the /etc/services file that comes with (most) Linux
 SH> distributions. It lists just about every service under the sun and its
 SH> corresponding port, sorted by port number starting with 1.

Will have a looksee.  But unfortunately that URL's not up
And had a look in my Slackware Linux ver3 CD ROMs but the sub directories
you mention wern't there.  Do you know of any other source for this
listing?

Thanks for the reply
Richard

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