> In message <199908022217.xaa02...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
> : Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all
> : numeric, getservbyname().
>
> I did it getservbyname first in case there were any legacy services
> that were all numbers. Traditionally, this is hwo things were done
> with IP addresses, although a quickie survey shows it to be a mixed
> bag. The biggest reason for not doing getservbyname first is that it
> will hang (long timeout) if the databsae behind it goes away.
Exactly - ditto for gethostbyname(). In the case of gethostbyname(),
I believe that domain names can't have a number as the first
character - I would have thought this idea should follow through with
services.
I know I'd be pretty annoyed if I tried to do something like ``ssh -p
1234 somewhere'' after configuring my interface in single-user modem
with nis in /etc/host.conf and found that ssh was looking up 1234 in
/etc/services. Even if this is right, it's not intuitive.
> Warner
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