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# Jon Postel
rap 38/tcp Route Access Protocol
rap 38/udp Route Access Protocol
# Robert Ullmann
rlp 39/tcp Resource Location Protocol
rlp 39/udp Resource Location Protocol
# Mike Accetta
# 40/tcp Unassigned
# 40/udp Unassigned
graphics 41/tcp Graphics
graphics 41/udp Graphics
name 42/tcp Host Name Server
name 42/udp Host Name Server
nameserver 42/tcp Host Name Server
nameserver 42/udp Host Name Server
nicname 43/tcp Who Is
nicname 43/udp Who Is
mpm-flags 44/tcp MPM FLAGS Protocol
mpm-flags 44/udp MPM FLAGS Protocol
mpm 45/tcp Message Processing Module [recv]
mpm 45/udp Message Processing Module [recv]
mpm-snd 46/tcp MPM [default send]
mpm-snd 46/udp MPM [default send]
# Jon Postel
ni-ftp 47/tcp NI FTP
ni-ftp 47/udp NI FTP
# Steve Kille
auditd 48/tcp Digital Audit Daemon
auditd 48/udp Digital Audit Daemon
# Larry Scott
tacacs 49/tcp Login Host Protocol (TACACS)
The point here: None of the standard Net services listed above are
services provided by the Duopoly to telephone customers or cable TV
customers. If you look at the whole list below, we believe you will
agree that these services are not offered by either the Telephone
Company nor by the Cable Company.
Example of a Net service: Consider port 17/tcp. The people who built,
and today, build and run the Net, have freely agreed, without
coercion, without payments, without contracts, to use port 17/tcp for
the Net application called qotd, which means "quote of the day". For
information about qotd see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOTD
qotd is a very simple protocol/Net application. Here is an example of
its use. I issue the command
telnet ota.iambic.com 17
and I get back
Trying 64.124.71.12...
Connected to ota.iambic.com.
Escape character is '^]'.