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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:40:08 -0700
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd sitting on ldaps port
Message-ID:  <20041007014008.GA664@empiric.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041007013001.GH3848@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1097095438.1208.7.camel@server> <20041006205954.GB3848@dan.emsphone.com> <1097102594.1805.4.camel@server> <20041007013001.GH3848@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:30:01PM -0500, Dan Nelson uttered:
> > OK, but aren't there rules about rpc allowing assigned ports like that?
> 
> Not as far as I know.  I suppose bindresvport() could be changed to
> walk /etc/services and only use one of the 450 reserved ports not
> listed.

I'm more in favour of allowing RPC daemons to be bound to specific ports
in order to ease packet filtering. I've done this for mountd(8) for just
this reason.

BMS



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