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The file contains
information regarding the known services available in the Internet. For
each service a single line should be present with the following information:
official service name port number protocol name aliases Items are separated
by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. The port number and protocol
name are considered a single a ‘‘/’’ is used to separate the port and protocol
(e.g. ‘‘512/tcp’’). A ‘‘#’’ indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters
up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search
the file. Service 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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