[Server-devel] Re: MPP port selection

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Mon Apr 2 08:42:22 EDT 2007


Hi,

has this been decided by now?

On Sunday 01 April 2007 06:07, Luis Carlos Cobo Rus wrote:
> 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 ?

Why use an existing port at all?

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers while updated this Saturday 
doesnt list 953 as used... :(


regards,
	Holger
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