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From: chris@vision.uucp (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Registering an "official" port name
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.201628.9511@vision.uucp>
Date: 1 Mar 91 20:16:28 GMT
Reply-To: chris%vision@ukc.ac.uk (Chris Davies)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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Apologies in advance for my probable misuse of the word "port".  I hope you
will understand what I mean...

We would like to be able to register a known TCP/IP port number (as seen
in /etc/services on most implementations of TCP/IP that I've seen) for use by
one of our products.  We do not want to allow the system admin to choose (at
installation time) which port our product should use - we want to be able to
guarantee (ish) that port _number_ XYZ will have our client sitting on it.

Unfortunately we don't know who (or what) is responsible for the allocation and
registration of these ports.  Can someone point me in the right direction? If
not, has anyone got any useful suggestions, please?

Thanks in advance,
Chris
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