Re: Purpose of Port 0.

On 2/20/2017 4:54 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> > That's what I'd expected, thanks. 
> >
> > BTW,
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
> > did the same,  except of the two references it cited, one is
> > broken and one is not reliable enough. 
> Avoiding that sort of problem is part of what IANA registries
> are supposed to be for.
I would agree IF Wikipedia didn't insist on replicating the content of
the registry.

The best solution is to edit the Wikipedia page, but that's a Sisyphian
task.

Joe