Re: Any Old Port In A Storm
Quoting Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:02:49PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Bah! Any port over 1024 is fair game, that's the point of low port numbers.
> > 8??? is a very standard HTTP alternate port and you are within your rights to
> > be there. It is the admins job to juggle ports when he tries to install a
> > collection of things that do not play nice.
>
> On the other hand, isn't that part of system integration, which is
> Debian's job? Lots of things that are traditionally the admin's job
> are made easier by Debian policies.
>
> I think it would be good to create a Debian ports registry, which
> would be a central place to collect and present information about
> which ports are used by default by which packages. Its role would
> be similar to the registry of allocated userids.
>
> I'm trying to think of good ways to collect such information in
> the first place. It would be best if the raw data is supplied
> by the package maintainers directly, and can be updated by them
> when it changes.
Would it be useful to have an update-services program so anything
that wants to use a non-standard port should register itself in
/etc/services? Admittedly, this isn't a perfect solution since
nsswitch.conf can use something other than /etc/services (LDAP,
anyone?)
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