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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: inet port numbers
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Date: 23 Dec 87 19:12:28 GMT
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Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Organization: The American Redundancy Society of America
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Keywords: registry

With all the interest in interprocess communication nowadays, there are bound
to be some port number clashes between peoples' programs.  What does everyone
think of starting up a registry for port numbers?  That way, if you planned to
distribute a program outside of your local net, you would ask for a range of
port numbers that nobody else's utility was using, and be ensured that no other
programs would clash with yours.  The process could be automated -- it should
be possible to write a little daemon that people telnet into to request port
numbers or to ask if a range of numbers is being used by someone else.  Of
course, the initial work of tracking down existing utilities' port numbers
would be large, but in the end I think it would be worth it.  I'm willing to
run the service, for a while anyway, if there is enough interest.

Since there are likely to be a number of responses to this idea, please
reply with E-Mail.  I'll post the results in a couple of weeks.

							Steve

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