deanr@lakesys.UUCP (Dean Roth) (03/14/89)
My company will be producing commercial TCP/IP
server and client software. Question:
how do we pick a port number that will not collide
with another software package's port number?
I have already tentatively selected a "large"
and hopefully improbable number, but I'd like
to do better than "toss darts in the dark" looking
for a "good" number to use.
Please email me. My node's news delivery has not
been 100% reliable recently. Thank you.
deanr@lakesys.lakesys.com
deanr@lakesys.UUCP
{rutgers, uwvax} uwmcsd1!lakesys!deanrMly@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Mlynarik) (03/14/89)
Date: 13 Mar 89 22:46:04 GMT
From: marque!lakesys!deanr@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Dean Roth)
My company will be producing commercial TCP/IP
server and client software. Question:
how do we pick a port number that will not collide
with another software package's port number?
I have already tentatively selected a "large"
and hopefully improbable number, but I'd like
to do better than "toss darts in the dark" looking
for a "good" number to use.
Use TCPMUX, RFC1078.
Choose a contact name like "VERSION-1.MY-PROTOCOL.MY-COMANY-NAME.COM"
(Assuming that "MY-COMPANY-NAME.COM" is a registered domain name,
and hence guaranteed unique.)
Down with meaningless numbers!