[Server-devel] MPP port selection

[John Watlington]

On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:57, John Watlington wrote:
>> I am suggesting that we change from port 953 (rndc) to port 16,
>> currently unassigned.
>>
>> The open question is whether we should proceed with IANA registration
>> for this
>> service.  How long is the MPP service going to be needed ?
>> It is likely that we would have to change ports again after
>> registration, unless they give
>> us 16...
>
> I don't think it's likely that they'll give out such low numbers.  
> So wouldnt
> it be better to register a higher number in the first place? 716,  
> 816 and 916
> are unassigned, 716 at the beginning of an unassigned block of  
> ports...
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
>
> (Please correct me if I wrongly understood MPPs as Mesh Portal
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php? 
> title=Mesh_Network_Details#Mesh_Portals) -
> I would expect those to be needed forever ;)

IANA specifically warns against picking a number and then requesting it.
The use of port 16 is temporary, and the MPP discovery mechanism is  
being
redesigned by the mesh networking team.

wad