Global list of used TCP/UDP ports

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 23:52 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 octobre 2006 à 16:02 -0400, seth vidal a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 21:57 +0200, Frank Büttner wrote:
> > > Now we have the problem that 2 services use the same port.
> > > To fix this and prevent other services to fall in this trap, we need to
> > > build an list in FC Extra with port's all in use.
> > > So here the first entry for the list:
> > > All other maintainer shut add his services to this list.
> > > ________________________________
> > > Port	Protocol	Service
> > > 8000	TCP		nas
> > 
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure the IANA trumps us when it comes to port assignment.
> 
> A lot of ports won't go through IANA, and we should document then in the
> Fedora /etc/services, if only so :
> 1. packages do no step on one another's port
> 2. we can filter them in iptables by name
> 
> Once upon a time Fedora tried to keep /etc/services small (which forced
> everyone to use local incompatible assignments) but I think the new aim
> is to actually document the ports a Fedora user may use (which certainly
> includes ports used by FC or FE apps)

OO OO  - let's push for /etc/services.d/

:)

-sv