A Few Questions
James Wilkinson
fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 13 16:30:54 UTC 2005
Tim wrote:
> Pick a different port, yet again. Pick something like eighty-thousand,
> it's unlikely to be blocked, nor be found so easily be nosey parkers
> probing your ports.
Well, it's unlikely to be blocked, all right, but I don't think it will
work: RFC 793 specifies ports as being 16 bits, which means the highest
port number is 65535.
Hope this helps,
James.
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