Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ? | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 16 Nov 2002 01:11:30 +0100 |
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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 ?
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