SERVICES(5,F) AIX TCP/IP User's Guide SERVICES(5,F) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- services PURPOSE Contains information regarding the known services available in the DARPA Internet. SYNOPSIS /etc/services DESCRIPTION The services file contains information regarding the known services available in the DARPA Internet. For each service, a single line should be present with the following information: official-service-name port-number protocol-name aliases (optional) Items are separated by any number of blanks or tab characters. The port number and protocol name are considered a single item. A / is used to separate the port and protocol (such as 512/tcp). A # indicates the beginning of a comment. Characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. Service names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, new line, or comment character. EXAMPLES Processed October 29, 1990 SERVICES(5,F) 1
SERVICES(5,F) AIX TCP/IP User's Guide SERVICES(5,F) echo 7/udp echo 7/tcp discard 9/udp sink null discard 9/tcp sink null systat 11/tcp daytime 13/tcp daytime 13/udp netstat 15/tcp qotd 17/tcp quote chargen 19/tcp ttytst source chargen 19/udp ttytst source ftp 21/tcp telnet 23/tcp smtp 25/tcp mail time 37/tcp timserver time 37/udp timserver rlp 39/udp resource #resource location name 42/tcp nameserver whois 43/tcp nicname domain 53/tcp nameserver #name-domain server domain 53/udp nameserver #name-domain server mtp 57/tcp #deprecated hostnames 101/tcp hostname #usually from sri-nic FILES /etc/services RELATED INFORMATION In this book: "ifconfig" "hostname" "inetd" getservent, refer to AIX Operating System Technical Reference Processed October 29, 1990 SERVICES(5,F) 2