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SubjectRe: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default
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From: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:01:35 -0700

> Following the principle of least astonishment, I think it seems better
> to use high, out-of-the-way port numbers regardless of how much RAM the
> system has. So, the following patch changes this behavior slightly.
> The system still picks a dynamic range depending on the bind hash size,
> but now, all ranges start with 32768. I suppose another reasonable way
> to do this would be to end all ranges with 61000, or something like
> that.

All ports above and including 1024 are non-privileged and available to
anyone.

Applications which have some requirements in this area need to work
those things out themselves.
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