Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 19:50:30 -0400
Message-Id: <aad06e3f080210048d43@[199.227.1.76]>
To: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
From: hoymand@gate.net (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
Subject: Re: Port for URN->URC resolution
At 8:39 PM 10/22/94, Mitra wrote:
>In article <199410211004.LAA07798@lust.mrrl.lut.ac.uk>, you write:
>>I'm using port 10043 for this server. Mitra et al - any progress on
>>choosing a port number ?
>
>
>I'll ask for a registered port - but one question - should this be in the
>secure (<1000) or insecure (>1000) area, if we go the secure root, then
>only people with root access to the server will be able to get the resolver
>running, but that doesnt seem too much of a limitation to me?
I'd say this ought to be a secure port from the word go. There's already
enough concern about authentication, we might as well not open another
hole.
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