"Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The same is true for other RPC servers. It's the libc that restricts the
port
numbers (look at glibc-2.3.5/sunrpc/bindrsvprt.c, currently, it seems
it's port = (PID % 424) + 600). And, as I've said, the libc maintainer is
not going to add a blacklist there for stuff in /etc/services. Please
reread
the references I gave in my previous e-mail.
Um... libc *SHOULD NOT* be doing that.
A program should *NEVER* use a port in the range 1-1023 without registering
the port with the IANA's well known port list.
It is alsa a bad idea to use a port in the range of 1024-49151 without
registering.
If more privleged ports are needed it should be possible to have a system
reserve a small portion of the dynamic/privare address space. (Dynamic use
of ports outside this range is just asking for trouble.)
I suspect it is the RPC system that is brain-dead.
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