Hauke Fath <ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:20:40 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>> Greg Troxel wrote in <rmijzuhkoa4....@s1.lexort.com>:
>> |Hauke Fath <ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
>> |> attached is a diff with services that for some reason or other got
>> |> dropped from /etc/services - in particular Amanda* and AppleTalk.
>> |
>> |The really big question here is the relationship between our
>> |/etc/services and
>> |
>> |
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt>
>
> Indeed, and our /etc/services looks a lot more like a copycat of that
> file than like the output of Steffen's script - thanks for that. Has it
> ever been used for a commit, though?
You should write to the people that did the commits and ask them.
> IANA appears to have settled on submissions for port 465 (which,
> coincidentally, was assigned to 'urd' in the netbsd-5 version, and the
> NetBSD addition then declared the smtps alias). A web search for
> 'smtps' confirms widespread use, so this should be maintained as an
> alias for 'submissions' IMO.
I must have misread. The iana link above clearly has submissions =
465/tcp. It also has urd. So our file should of course match.
There's a huge point here that I want to make explicit. We need to have
a sane process for updating from IANA, and that involves
- having a script to convert IANA into our format
- having that script checked into the sources
- some mechanism to maintain the "local additions" section at the end
- probably a scheme to maintain any diffs from IANA, if we really want
any
- probably a way to build a new file from iana-converted and local
