NAME
protocols —
protocol name data base
DESCRIPTION
Theprotocols file contains information regarding the
known protocols used in the DARPA Internet. For each protocol a single line
should be present with the following information:
official protocol name protocol number aliases
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.
Protocol names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.
FILES
- /etc/protocols
- The
protocolsfile resides in /etc.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The protocols file format appeared in
4.2BSD.
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.