12/30 What is the service "iad3" running on port 1032 of a non-server
windows '98 box? Anyone??
\_ ports greater than 1024 are the ephemeral ports (not defined by
IETF)
\_ That is neither true, nor relevant.
\_ I meant not regulated by IETF
\_ Still neither true nor relevant. IANA, not IETF, registers
port numbers, and any port number can be registered
(1-65535). Nevertheless, Microsoft can and will run
anything it wants on any port without registering it with
IANA. Ephemeral ports are not defined by any RFC and
different OS'es pick different methods of assigining
ephemeral ports - but I'm not aware of any that says
they are all ports > 1024. (BSD defaults to 1024-5000,
while SysVR4 uses 32768-65535.) |