[TriLUG] Port Numbers (was: email (imap) setup question)

[Lisa C. Boyd]

Wow! Ben's helped me with a million and one Debian/Linux things and I 
actually posted a link that he bookmarked. I'm humbled :) Guess the sun 
shines ... every once in awhile!

Lisa B.

Ben Pitzer wrote:
> /etc/services, as Mike said, is a good place to start, however it is not
> comprehensive.  On some systems, ports are left out of /etc/services, so if
> you don't see what you're looking for in there, don't panic.  In that case,
> Lisa's reference page is spot on.  I usually refer to my local system first,
> but have had to look elsewhere in the past.  I hadn't seen that IANA page
> before, but I've book marked it for future use.  You Solaris users, for
> example, remember:  port 22 is not listed in /etc/services by default.  You
> may need to add it by hand.