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From: cliffb@isavax.isa.com (cliff bedore*)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: What service broadcasts on UDP port 60000?
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.120021.21189@isavax.isa.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 12:00:21 GMT
References: <9101162103.AA12082@thdsun.EPM.ORNL.GOV>
Reply-To: cliffb@isavax.isa.com (cliff bedore*)
Organization: ISA Inc. Arlington, VA
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In article <9101162103.AA12082@thdsun.EPM.ORNL.GOV> dunigan@THDSUN.EPM.ORNL.GOV (Tom Dunigan 576-2522) writes:
>we're trying to figure out what service is broadcasting on
>UDP port 60000.  It's coming from an SCO Xenix engine
>with Lachman TCP/IP.
>thanks

What I've been told is that SCO is broadcasting their license number so that
if another host hears its license number it will "shut down" tcp in some
manner.  Its apparently a copy protection scheme.

Cliff