> On Feb 6, 2018, at 1:22 PM, Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2/6/2018 12:34 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: >> mountd can and should use a dynamic port assignment, IMO. >> It doesn't have to use 20048. > > Speaking of 20048, does anyone know why Nico made this assignment? > Apart from making it well-known for firewalls, what system(s) > actually required it? I don't recall it ever being discussed. > Using it is certainly not required, since portmap resolves it. > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt > > ++ mountd 20048 tcp NFS mount protocol [Nicolas_Williams] [Nicolas_Williams] 2010-08-09 > ++ mountd 20048 udp NFS mount protocol [Nicolas_Williams] [Nicolas_Williams] 2010-08-09 Actually my first active interaction with the nfsv4 WG was at the IETF meeting in Montreal in late July of 2010. So I can't say that I have any memory of why this was done. It might be a question that can be answered by someone on nfsv4@xxxxxxxx. -- Chuck Lever -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
