Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ?

From: Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 19:11:30 EST


Le sam 16/11/2002 à 01:00, Arun Sharma a écrit :
> One of the Intel server platforms has a magic port number (623) that
> it uses for remote server management. However, neither the kernel nor
> glibc are aware of this special port.
>
> As a result, when someone requests a privileged port using
> bindresvport(3), they may get this port back and bad things happen.
>
> Has anyone run into this or similar problems before ? Thoughts on
> what's the right place to handle this issue ?

run a dummy app at startup which reserves that port ?

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