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Re: Port 2000

2006-05-14 22:09:44

#3.

Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

IANA registration is pending, or so the latest draft says. Well, what'll
the draft say if IANA won't hand out port 2000?

I see three possibilities:

1. Advise servers to listen to a standard port, and "MAY also listen to
2000 for legacy compatibility". Advise servers to try the standard port,
then 2000?

2. Advise servers to listen to a standard port, site admins to add a SRV
record, and client to look for the SRV record and fall back to port 2000
if there is none?

3. Mention only the IANA-assigned port, not 2000, and pretend to ignore
that all servers listen to port 2000 too, and every client falls back to
2000?

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