Registered as uma; older service files call it news, Sun's PostScript window system.
IANA registers port 144 as uma, Universal Management Architecture. Older /etc/services files instead name it news for Sun's NeWS, the PostScript-based window system that lost to X11 — a source of confusion, since it has nothing to do with Usenet news on 119. Neither service has a live implementation today. An open 144 is an unrelated listener, and the scanner label will tell you whichever name that machine's services file happens to carry.
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Two dead names for one port; identify the real service rather than trusting the label.
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