On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jan 12, Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When running tcpdump on the DSL interface I see a lot of connection tries
to 6881. These are all peers trying to pick up a bittorrent connection.
Please include it in the list, since 6881/bittorrent is very popular and one
doesn't have to look up the port anywhere if it's included in services.
I usually do not add new ports to /etc/services without a justification.
I do only have the one above - i.e. the port is seen *very* often in
packets (as in; the majority of traffic on the internet is claimed to be
p2p nowadays...), thus when using whatever trafic dumper one will see this
port often and...
Is some package using bittorrent with getservbyname(3),
...will be then be looked up by getservbyname, as done by tcpdump. I don't
know if other packages use getservbyname for that particular port.
or has this port been officially assigned by IANA?
No, I don't think so.
*t
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