[Server-devel] Re: MPP port selection

Luis Carlos Cobo Rus luiscarlos at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 00:07:20 EDT 2007


Hi John,

there's nothing special about the port or anycast IP, we only need
them to be consistent between MPPs and clients.

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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