On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 08:45:43PM -0500, Nicolas Beaulieu wrote:

Hi all

Recently, there has been a message on this list about a file somewhere on the SuSE's file system that described each and every port's utility with their respective number. Could you please tell me where exactly this file is located?

One url with this information is at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers which I think someone posted to this list. I downloaded that file, then wrote a little Perl script around it so that I could query the identity of a port, e.g., $ whoport 119 119/tcp nntp Network News Transfer Protocol (Larry Barnes ) 119/udp nntp Network News Transfer Protocol (Larry Barnes ) FWIW, here's the script: ***********cut here************* #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $ports = join '|', @ARGV; my $contact = ''; # data source: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers while (<DATA>) { next unless (my ($name, $port, $proto, $descr) = m{^(\w+)\s+(\d+)\/(\w+)\s+(\S.+)}) || \ (($contact) = m{^#\s+(\S.*)}); next unless $port && $port =~ m/^$ports$/; $port = 'UNDEF' unless defined $port; $name = 'UNDEF' unless defined $name; $proto = 'UNDEF' unless defined $proto; $descr = 'UNDEF' unless defined $descr; $contact = 'UNDEF' unless defined $contact; print << "OUTPUT"; $port/$proto\t$name\t$descr\t($contact) OUTPUT } =head1 NAME whoport -- search for and identify tcp/ucp ports =head1 SYNOPSIS Identify argument port(s): whoport [port_number] ... List all ports: whoport head1 AUTHOR Script: Ken Irving Data: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers =head1 BUGS The presentation rules are not robust, and there are some mis-formatted output lines, usually regarding the contact person. The no argument form is not implemented. A useful alternative would be to allow lookup by port name. A more sophisticated scheme might be to download and cache the port data from the url, rather than storing a static copy in this file. =cut __END__ ######### NOTE: the text data goes here, following the __END__ line ***********cut here************* -- Ken Irving Trident Software jkirving@mosquitonet.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/