On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:33:17PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Mark Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In an ideal world dynamic services would have a range of ports reserved > >for them. We're quite a way away from an ideal world here. > There are ports for that. > All ports above 49151 are designated for local (i.e. client) or dynamic > (i.e. dynamic servers) use.
Those cannot be used for some RPC server services as some need to run on "trusted" ports (i.e. <1024) for servers to work together fine. Yes, not really "trusted" this day and age, but actually necessarily for compatibity reasons with other (legacy?) UN*X services. Regards Javier
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