Re: [discuss] portmapping sucks

[Trent Waddington]

On 1/25/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are a number of common ports in the 512-1023 range. All
> obsolescence and meaninglessness aside, there _are_ rather "important"
> services in that range, ldaps, rtsp, kerberos, rsync, ftps, imaps, just
> to name a few from /etc/services. This map-to-random-port behavior is a
> total DoS thing.

Any reason why you can't make a one line code change to use a better
range?  Or add a blacklist?

Trent
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