Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:45:18 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dg@root.com Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.h in_pcb.c Message-ID: <14247.893015118@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:39:24 PDT." <199804191939.MAA04230@implode.root.com>
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In message <199804191939.MAA04230@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes: >>phk 1998/04/19 10:22:36 PDT >> >> Modified files: >> sys/netinet in.h in_pcb.c >> Log: >> According to: >> >> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers >> >> port numbers are divided into three ranges: >> >> 0 - 1023 Well Known Ports >> 1024 - 49151 Registered Ports >> 49152 - 65535 Dynamic and/or Private Ports >> >> This patch changes the "local port range" from 40000-44999 >> to the range shown above (plus fix the comment in in_pcb.c). >> >> WARNING: This may have an impact on firewall configurations! > > This should not have been committed. There was extensive discussion about >this and the change was rejected. Well, too bad there were not one single line of this discussion in the PR :-( Can you give a brief summary ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"
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