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From: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: TCP Port question
Keywords: TCP/IP
Message-ID: <364@toro.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 20:26:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MTS - Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Information Systems
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In RFC 1010, there is a list of officially defined ports used by TCP
(and by UDP wherever possible). I am writing a server process which
hangs on a "well-known" port which can supply both the official ports
(given a port name or number) and to which locally defined ports can be
added to dynamically (thus programs can ask this process to generate
new port numbers).

I have 2 questions:
	1) Is this service already defined (and thus I should simply
	   mimic its behavior)?
	2) Failing that, is there a port that is recommended for this
	   service (I am planning on using IPPORT_RESERVED+1)?

We are are running Excelan's TCP/IP on NCR Towers running SysV.1 and 2.
These machines are running on Ethernet LANs and are not attached to
the Internet in any way whatsoever...
Please email me any recommendations.

Thanks,

Nicholas Jacobs
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