is one of my hosts a scanner?

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Tue Sep 9 13:43:22 PDT 2003


>> so tell me, why does the iana think port 2703 is sms-chat?  i.e.,
>> why is the port used by razor2 not properly registered as a well
>> known port?
> Maybe razor2 is using the port without checking if it was already 
> assigned for sms-chat?

clearly

> IANA doesn't automagically know who uses what port unless
> someone tells them I thought.

exactly.  there is a process to get a port number assigned.

   <http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/sys-port-number.pl>

randy



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