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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Ports 1000-1023 reserved?
Message-ID: <41232@think.Think.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 90 02:28:39 GMT
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In article <1628@excelan.COM> donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
>I don't even understand what prompted some misguided soul to
>add the extra, unnecessary code needed to make this check.

I suspect that it is trying to prevent users from spoofing standard
services.  For instance, mail can normally be forged by opening a
connection to port 25.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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