[Bug 227888] random port selection for daemons cause other daemons to fail

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            Bug ID: 227888
           Summary: random port selection for daemons cause other daemons
                    to fail
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.1-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: standards
          Assignee: standards at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: d8zNeCFG at aon.at

The issue described here has caused problems for me for a long time.

Scenario:
- Small home server running lots of services: amd, apache24, ataidle, cupsd,
dbus, delegate, dhcpd, dhcpd6, firewall, gateway, hald, hylafax, inetd,
ipv6_gateway, kdm4, moused, mpd, mysql, named, nfs_client, nfs_server,
nis_client, nis_server, nis_yppasswdd, ntpd, openvpn, postgresql, powerd,
rpc_lockd, rpc_statd, rpcbind, rtadvd, rtsold, rwhod, samba_server, sendmail,
squid, sshd, syslogd, winbindd, zfs

Result:
- Rather often (estimated 10% of all reboots) one of the daemons using random
port numbers chooses one which is later on required by another daemon which
needs a well-known port number to operate
- Example today: mountd listens on port 631 which is required by cups,
therefore cups does not work
- Example from a few days ago: ypbind listens on 873 which is required by inetd
configured to spawn rsync

Expected result:
- Ports should be chosen so as not to cause conflicts

Proposed mitigation measure: Revert to using well-known port numbers for
standard system daemons like it was done ages ago.

-- Martin

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