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From: cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  tcp port numbers
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Date: 16 Jan 90 18:05:24 GMT
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 >> Sun's NeWS system usurped port 2000
 
Sun also decided to use port 9 (DISCARD protocol) for "copy protection"
of their PC-NFS product.  Is that a low enough port number?  Nothing
like stomping all over convention.  Now I have beaucoup messages from
various blankity-blank Peesee's in a log on our network test machine.
Of course all the other systems on the net get to handle these
interrupts too.

A way to stop this noise is to send the data back to them.  Yuck, yuck.

We could call it "Well Known Socket Protection".

Phil