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From: ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  bind address protection
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Date: Wed, 9-Apr-86 20:03:36 EST
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You can not bind a source address less than some minimum configured
(usually 1000 or 2000) unless you are root.  This keeps random users
from mucking around with the low numbers that are allocated to trusted
system utilities.

-Ron