MPP port selection

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Sun Apr 1 00:46:54 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 21:07 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> there's nothing special about the port or anycast IP, we only need
> them to be consistent between MPPs and clients.

Somebody figure it out and let me know :)

Dan

> On 3/31/07, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > The choice of port for the MPP server (953) was unfortunate.
> > It is also used by BIND9's remote control interface (rndc).
> >
> > Can we get this changed ASAP ?
> > How about a less useful service, like gopher or timed ?
> > Or a non-priviledged port ?
> >
> > And while we are at it, can we use a less common address for the
> > ANYCAST ?   Something like  172.31.252.252.   I don't want to have
> > routing conflicts with some ISP assigning 192.168.x.x to the WAN.
> >
> > wad
> >
> >
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