On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> A question that always baffled me (I'm fairly easy to baffle) is why we've
> got some numbers defined as both udp and tcp when the service type is only
> one or the other. Does anyone know?

Probably because the IANA specifies them that way.  I think that they
try to keep both UDP and TCP ports the same, "just in case".  There
might be a better explanation in rfc1700 (assigned numbers), or whatever
it's latest edition is.

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