From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 9 1:30: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F2215545 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 01:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40359>; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:11:48 +1000 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:29:33 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Clipboard Daemon - thinking of writing one :) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <99Jul9.181148est.40359@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: >> - How can I choose a guaranteed free TCP port? > >www.iana.org >IANA -- Internat Assigned Numbers Authority This is fine in theory, but doesn't work quite as well in practice. I spent several years (unsuccessfully) trying to convince a sister company that allocating TCP ports starting at 6001 for an application was not a good idea (the system _did_ include an X-server, but not multi-headed, luckily). It made using ssh quite a pain at times. Orbix (IONA's CORBA implementation) uses a number of TCP ports - none of which seem to be registered. Closer to home, there's the recent problems with the RADIUS ports. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message