Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 16 Nov 2002 02:43:58 +0000 |
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On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 00:00, Arun Sharma wrote: > 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.
I can't find it in the IETF standards documents either.
> As a result, when someone requests a privileged port using > bindresvport(3), they may get this port back and bad things happen.
They have at least as much right to it as you do
> Has anyone run into this or similar problems before ? Thoughts on > what's the right place to handle this issue ?
Run your remote management daemon from xinetd, it'll then get the port nice and early in the system runtime.
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