New /etc/services for testing available

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:54, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> http://people.redhat.com/pknirsch/services
>
> Just dump it as a replacement in /etc (maybe making a copy of the old
> /etc/services first, but shouldn't be necessary as the first part of the
> file is identical to our old one).
>
> I'd especially like to get some feedback from people using it on network
> servers or monitoring machines where apps like nmap, tcpdump and
> ethereral are run. My main interest is if any errors pop up and if
> anyone gets performance problems (because for worst case scenarios it
> can now take up to 15 times as long for getservbyname() to complete).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
Phil,

I just ran an nmap of my network with the new file in /etc/services  i scanned 
a /24 subnet  with 110 hosts in 310 seconds

a scan from october last year took  111 seconds with 105 hosts

i didint notice any errors in the scan

Dennis