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From: MargoAndTodd <margoandtodd@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what should I use for "unassigned" ports?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:03:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B46301A.5080207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56378e321001061233o121c12fgadc33b03639343c8@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/06/2010 12:33 PM, Richard Horton wrote:
> 2010/1/6 Anthony Ewell<amewell@verizon.net>:
>
>> Having taken a more recent look at "/etc/services", I
>> am finding zillions of service ports above 1024.
>>
>> With that in mind, is there a better starting port
>> for my "unassigned" ports?
>>
>
> Sadly these days nope - the assigned port numbers are now all over the place.
>
> However, alot of them are not likely to be in use on your system so
> you ought to define your unassigned port range by what you are
> actually running not by the contents of /etc/services (same goes for
> protocols).

So, pick the highest port I use and go somewhat above that.
That will work.  Thank you!

-T

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-06 18:12 what should I use for "unassigned" ports? Anthony Ewell
2010-01-06 20:33 ` Richard Horton
2010-01-07 19:03   ` MargoAndTodd [this message]
2010-01-07 11:36 ` Pascal Hambourg
2010-01-07 11:56 ` Richard Horton

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