On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:33:31PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > > > It is also interesting that natd doesn't respect the > > "hifirst..hilast" settings here. Shouldn't it look at > > these variables and avoid assigning ports that the > > machine on which it's running would not use? Or should > > there be a "net.inet.alias.portrange.first", etc., so > > that one could specify the ranges or lists for everything > > in one place? > > The high range is really a "feature" added for ftpd's sake, if you take a > look back through the cvs history. There's no problem with the normal and > high ranges overlapping; -current uses 49152-65535 for both.
It is odd that libalias picks a port number, and then, if the "use sockets" option is set, tries to open a socket on that port. Perhaps if the above option is set, it should bind port 0 and use the port the kernel assigns. If folks think that's a good idea, I could produce a patch to alias_db.c for evaluation. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
