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yunruselast Tuesday at 7:42 PM1 replyview on HN

This project is essentially "give me some metadata & a command which takes env $PORT, and I'll handle the rest". Which is neat!

I am also sick of handling port numbers - I end up allocating them on a schema to different services, so for testing I can spool any VM/service combination and avoid crossover. But if I want the same service twice, ah...

It always fascinated me that ports don't have any kind of textual resolver, so you can bind to `:1234` and also say "please also accept `:foobar`". But that would itself require some kind of "port resolver" on a device, and that's another service to break and fix :)


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winstonwinstonlast Tuesday at 9:04 PM

There is /etc/services to map port numbers to service names, and using getportbyname() to resolve port numbers.

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