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The file contains
information regarding the known protocols used in the Internet. For each
protocol a single line should be present with the following information:
official protocol name protocol number aliases Items are separated by
any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ‘‘#’’ indicates the beginning
of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted
by routines which search the file. Protocol names may contain any printable
character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.
The file resides in
A name server should be used instead
of a static file.
The file format appeared in
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