Comment by amelius

Well, frankly I don't care how the ports are implemented, by numbers would be fine. As long as it means that from the user's point of view they are names. A config file like /etc/services is too simple because I create ports all the time, even from scripts, and I don't want to always become root to change the config; and other systems that want to connect to ports on my machine can't read /etc/services on my machine.