Using /etc/services for in-house well-known ports

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Published on 2014-08-19T00:57:01Z Indexed on 2014/08/19 4:23 UTC
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I couldn't find anything much about this, but I'm interested what are pros and cons (if any) in using /etc/services for in-house software?

On my Linux distro (Ubuntu 14.04) at the end of /etc/services is a comment:

# Local services

hinting that it could be a good thing to do.

One thing that comes to mind is that having in-house ports in /etc/services would make serv database a reference point for common knowledge and much better source of default ports for applications throughout the system.

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