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		saidnooneever 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers you go and look in etc services for what is bound to port 5009. the article might not be the most useful but these comments are completely off the mark and stupid.

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afiori 4 days ago [–]

The hosts file is enough, what is needed is a way to assign an ip address to a process/service like you can with port numbers.

necovek 3 days ago | [–]

You can trivially have a server process bind a listening socket to eg. 127.4.3.19.

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