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From: erich@wilbur.arpa (Eric Hesse)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  bind address protection
Message-ID: <2508@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 9-Apr-86 21:31:46 EST
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I suspect you are trying to bind to an address in the previledged range
( 1 - 1023 ).