Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ? | From | Arun Sharma <> | Date | 15 Nov 2002 16:53:15 -0800 |
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xavier.bestel@free.fr (Xavier Bestel) writes:
> Le sam 16/11/2002 à 01:00, Arun Sharma a écrit : > > One of the Intel server platforms has a magic port number (623) that > > it uses for remote server management. However, neither the kernel nor > > glibc are aware of this special port. > > > > As a result, when someone requests a privileged port using > > bindresvport(3), they may get this port back and bad things happen. > > > > Has anyone run into this or similar problems before ? Thoughts on > > what's the right place to handle this issue ? > > run a dummy app at startup which reserves that port ?
Yes, I'm already aware of this one, but was looking for a lighter weight solution (ideally a config file change) that doesn't involve running an extra process (think of doing this on a large number of machines).
-Arun
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