Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:48:30 +1100 (EST) From: Rob Wise <rob@ideal.net.au> To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/5809: ircd ports not assigned in /etc/services Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980223104612.15871A-100000@fragile.ideal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <34EF8C84.CF922974@san.rr.com>
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Studded wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > Those are not the "standard" ports. Port 194 has been assigned > > > for IRC by the IANA. Port 6667 (among others) is widely used > > > because it's not a priviledged port, so you don't have to be > > > > I think this has become so much of a "defacto" standard, however, > > that it's worth putting into services. > > I'm not sure this is necessary, although one value of doing it would be > to let people know that it's possible their choice for a port would > conflict with a de facto standard. In general ircd does not use udp, > although undernet has a server <> server lag testing protocol that uses > udp, I'm not sure what port (I'm pretty sure it's not 6667). If you do > this, tcp port 6667 should be "ircd." Port 6666 is available on some > servers, but is by no means a standard. The Undernet ircd, and any other ircd based on it (DALnet, AustNet etc) use udp port 7007 for the lag testing protocol. Aside from that ircd does not use udp at all. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rob Wise Email: rob@ideal.net.au Systems Administrator, Phone: +61-246-28-8888 IDEAL Internet Services Fax: +61-246-28-8890 __________________ http://www.ideal.net.au/ ____________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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