In message <pine.bsf.4.10.9908021206050.11428-100...@jade.chc-chimes.com> Bill Fumerola writes: : Copying the telnet line and changing the first word to 'http' does wonders : for being to access machines from inside a school district's firewall.
What if the service has no name? : Choosing ports by number would be nice, however the same objections Matt : had with changing our API ring some buzzers in my head too, however the : evil side of me says "screw whoever is porting inetd, we like functionality. : : The evil side normally wins. I don't think we should change getportbyname. If the getportbyname fails, see if a strtol returns a number, and if so use that. I don't see what is so hard about doing that. If someone wants to run a service on a port that it wasn't desinged for, they can still do it today. I don't see what the argument against this change could possibly be. There is no evil here. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
