On Oct 9,  7:57am, david@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Merging entries from the IANA services list

| On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:36:54AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > 
| > We should import the whole IANA list. /etc/services can use a db file
| > now, so the queries are going to be fast...
| 
| Except that it is a royal PINA when it converts dynamically allocated
| port numbers to the names of procotols you've never heard of and are
| very unilikely to ever run.

We can have a file that blacklists ports so that we ignore them when
we convert the IANA file to services.

christos