On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Minh Van Le wrote:
> 1.a. removed port 80 in /etc/services
...
> 2.a. removed domain ports in /etc/services

Eeep! NO!
you DON'T disable things by commenting them out of /etc/services. That
file is just a reference to match names with port numbers.

Please don't do this. You're just breaking your own system and not making
it any more secure at all.
Some servers have a port number hard-coded or fall back to a hard-coded
port number if the name can't be matched.

The proper way is just to stop the service or to disable the service in
/etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d/ and restart inetd.

-- Jess.
( Staring in horror 8-| )

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