2010/1/6 Anthony Ewell <amewell@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Having taken a more recent look at "/etc/services", I > am finding zillions of service ports above 1024. > > With that in mind, is there a better starting port > for my "unassigned" ports? > Sadly these days nope - the assigned port numbers are now all over the place. However, alot of them are not likely to be in use on your system so you ought to define your unassigned port range by what you are actually running not by the contents of /etc/services (same goes for protocols). -- Richard Horton Users are like a virus: Each causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally dies. http://www.solstans.co.uk - Solstans Japanese Bobtails and Norwegian Forest Cats http://www.pbase.com/arimus - My online photogallery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
