New /etc/services for testing available

[Bill Crawford]

Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I'd like to get some feedback on a hugely updated /etc/services i've 
> done today.
>
> It basically merges the old /etc/services with almost all current 
> official IANA services.
>
> I've tried to make sure the file is sane and in order, but due to the 
> huge amount of new services i'd like to give it some selected exposure 
> and feedback before i think about putting it into our setup package.
>
> The file can be downloaded from here:
>
> 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,
>
> Read ya, Phil
>

 I'd really suggest instead making a poll of what people would find useful.

 There are going to be a lot of things in there that will probably never 
be useful, e.g. 2545 "sis-emt" is one I registered, and I'm pretty sure 
is now unused, or certainly of only very limited use.

 Just a thought.