John Kristoff wrote:
Perhaps the notion of a well known port is a concept whose time has
passed. At least for connection oriented protocols, doing away with
well known ports might have some good properties for some basic
authentication/cookie mechanism as well.
Well, there's SRV records; but that basically pushes the problem up a
layer. If services are identified by well-known service names in the
SRV record, then people will start filtering at the DNS level.
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