[Lunar-rfc] full dynamic services file

[Kok, Auke]

Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> Sunday 17 of June 2007 05:46:32 Kok, Auke wrote:
>>> Iana file is now
>>> dynamically updated so every new service officially accepted by iana is
>>> added to list
>> that also is completely bullshit. IANA is first of all an arbitrary
>> organization that does what it wants. Anything above port 1024 will
>> *officially* never be accepted (unless you bribe them, they stopped
>> accepting high-port numbers from open source projects at all).
> 
> Where I can get open source list of registered ports? Does such 
> centralized 'open list' exist at all? Maybe I should open 'bug' in Lunar 
> bugzilla so our Lunar community could gather such open list from users 
> experience?
> 
> It looks there are 3 lists:
> 1. iana list
> 2. open source list (?)
> 3. user list
> The 1st one is taken from iana server.
> User list will be extracted from what will be found on a machine.
> 
> I understand that the merging queue will look like this:
> 1. user list
> 2. open source list (if exist)
> 3. iana list
> AFAIK the first matching entry is always taken.
> 
> any corrections, suggestions?

I would just write the module to `insert` missing entries... if they have old 
port names and it gives issues to the user then so be it (that would be rare 
anyway).

it would be nice if the script can insert ordered into the list... should not be 
that hard to do with awk ;)

Auke