From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 7 08:13:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA02576 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA02564 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:13:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02055; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:11:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Matt Behrens cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Well-known ports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A well known port is a port agreed upon for a specific purpose - ie port 25 for SMTP (see /etc/services) A low port, under 1024 is assumed by inetd to initiate a root level access program On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Matt Behrens wrote: > What precisely are the well-known ports (i.e. only accessible by root) on > FreeBSD? sysctl gives 600-1023 as "loports" or some such, what does this > mean? > > Matt Behrens | Help bring a free inter-user communication > http://www.zigg.com | system to the Internet. Join the NetPager > matt@zigg.com | Project! http://www.zigg.com/netpager/ > >