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!deanr
Mly@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!