illumos gate

During the course of setting up a service which binds to its listening port by translating the service name in its configuration file to port number via getservbyname(3SOCKET), it became apparent to me that /etc/services has suffered from a little neglect over the years.

Which service names and their ports to add can be a question. My inclination is to limit the additions to ones prescribed by an RFC, with perhaps some non-RFC services allowed due to either their topical or popular relevance. For example, git's wire protocol is uses 9418/tcp/udp but this is not prescribed by any RFC, yet one could make a convincing argument for its inclusion due to its obvious popularity.