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<HR><H2>Re: common ports and bind()</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed May 18 02:15:03 1994
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Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 00:10:23 -0600 (MDT)
From: the Lyncx &lt;BRANDON@cc.usu.edu&gt;
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
X-Vms-To: COLDSTUFF

&lt;&gt; for existing ports in a regular OS, use the same portnumber with a
&lt;&gt; prefix of 66.
&lt;
&lt; This idea doesn't work so well for ports above 99 (e.g. news at 117).

I was under the impression that ports could be larger than 5 didgits (I cannot
remember the actual maxint, but I do know you could get 5 didgits out of it). 
I just fired up a facuet on port 100000 and it worked... (damn, whats the
maxint?)

&lt;&gt; Following this scheme it would be a good idea to change 6666 to 6623
&lt;&gt; (telnet), although that is only a shy rationalization, since you
&lt;&gt; should be using a client other than telnet.
&lt;
&lt; Moreover, as far as I know, no existing core implements the telnet
&lt; protocol (see RFC 854).


Yeah.
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