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Date:      Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:46:50 -0700
From:      Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd sitting on ldaps port
Message-ID:  <1097117210.1089.1.camel@server>
In-Reply-To: <20041007013001.GH3848@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1097095438.1208.7.camel@server> <1097102594.1805.4.camel@server> <20041007013001.GH3848@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 18:30, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 06), Sean McNeil said:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:59, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > > In the last episode (Oct 06), Sean McNeil said:
> > > > Looking at /etc/services is states that 636 is for ldaps, but I see that
> > > > amd is using it:
> > > > 
> > > > server# sockstat | grep 636
> > > > root     amd        468   5  tcp4   *:636                 *:*
> > > 
> > > That's just a random port rpcbind assigned to the "amd" rpc service. 
> > > If you reboot I bet it'll bind to a different port.  Run "rpcinfo -p
> > > localhost" to see all the local port numbers assigned to RPC clients.
> > 
> > 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.  Another alternative is to set the
> net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast sysctl a little higher; 700 maybe. 
> 600-1024 is the portrange that has been historically assigned as "local
> port numbers that root processes can use".

Great.  I've added

net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast=700

to my /etc/sysctl.conf and it worked as advertised.  Thanks.

Sean


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