[NCLUG] I was hacked!

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:01:16PM -0700, John L. Bass wrote:
>I think it may pre-date inetd. It was designed at a time when UNIX ethernet
>was still pretty new stuff, and much of UNIX networking was still ARPANET,
>and local university hacks.

By "inetd" I presumed that Mike meant "well-known service" ports.
Inetd doesn't really do anything except make writing daemons easier...
Because portmapper uses a WKS port, it's present form is unlikely to
pre-date them.  ;-)

Sean
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