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Re: [spec] mercury highlights ☿️

Bradley D. Thornton Bradley at NorthTech.US

Sun Feb 28 20:28:07 GMT 2021

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On 2/28/2021 11:23 AM, Ben wrote:

Any reason why port 1958 is chosen? I was thinking if it's adjacent to

Gemini (minus TLS) then why not something like 1964? Not unlike XMPP's

use of 5222 and 5223.

Project Mercury ran from 1958 - 1963. Gemini uses port 1965 based onthis same homage to the manned space programs leading up the the Apollomoon landing.

More info on that here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury

And since we're talking port numbers, that brings up another matter.Stephanie posted (or maybe I just read it on her page?) about acollision w/Tivoli on TCP 1965. She referred to it as a 'serious' conflict.

No offense, but I don't see that as an issue at all. It's anon-privileged port and there are several instances where differenttypes of services use the same ports with respect to UDP or TCP (even in/etc/services).

I checked /etc/services on Debian Bullseye and Slackware -current justnow and don't see port 1965 or Tivoli even mentioned.

NOTE: This is not to say that it's not relevant or perhaps important toaddress, as Stephanie suggests.

Here's something pertinent to that, as well as user accessibility:


# From ``Assigned Numbers'':##
> The Registered Ports are not controlled by the IANA and on most systems#
> can be used by ordinary user processes or programs executed by ordinary#
> users.##
> Ports are used in the TCP [45,106] to name the ends of logical#
> connections which carry long term conversations.  For the purpose of#
> providing services to unknown callers, a service contact port is#
> defined.  This list specifies the port used by the server process as its#
> contact port.  While the IANA can not control uses of these ports it#
> does register or list uses of these ports as a convienence to the#
> community.#socks           1080/tcp                        # socks proxy serversocks           1080/udpproofd          1093/tcpproofd          1093/udprootd           1094/tcprootd           1094/udpopenvpn         1194/tcpopenvpn         1194/udprmiregistry     1099/tcp                        # Java RMI Registryrmiregistry     1099/udpkazaa           1214/tcpkazaa           1214/udpnessus          1241/tcp                        # Nessus vulnerabilitynessus          1241/udp                        #  assessment scannerlotusnote       1352/tcp        lotusnotes      # Lotus Notelotusnote       1352/udp        lotusnotesms-sql-s        1433/tcp                        # Microsoft SQL Serverms-sql-s        1433/udpms-sql-m        1434/tcp                        # Microsoft SQL Monitorms-sql-m        1434/udpingreslock      1524/tcpingreslock      1524/udpdatametrics     1645/tcp        old-radiusdatametrics     1645/udp        old-radiussa-msg-port     1646/tcp        old-radacctsa-msg-port     1646/udp        old-radacctkermit          1649/tcpgroupwise       1677/tcpgroupwise       1677/udpl2f             1701/tcp        l2tpl2f             1701/udp        l2tpradius          1812/tcpradius          1812/udpradius-acct     1813/tcp        radacct         # Radius Accountingradius-acct     1813/udp        radacctmsnp            1863/tcp                        # MSN Messengermsnp            1863/udpunix-status     1957/tcp                        # remstats unix-statusserverlog-server      1958/tcp                        # remstats log serverremoteping      1959/tcp                        # remstats remoteping servercisco-sccp      2000/tcp                        # Cisco SCCPcisco-sccp      2000/udpsearch          2010/tcp        ndtppipe-server     2010/tcp        pipe_servernfs             2049/tcp                        # Network File Systemnfs             2049/udp                        # Network File Systemgnunet          2086/tcpgnunet          2086/udprtcm-sc104      2101/tcp                        # RTCM SC-104 IANA 1/29/99rtcm-sc104      2101/udpgsigatekeeper   2119/tcpgsigatekeeper   2119/udpgris            2135/tcp                # Grid Resource Information Servergris            2135/udpcvspserver      2401/tcp                        # CVS client/serveroperationscvspserver      2401/udpvenus           2430/tcp                        # codacon portvenus           2430/udp                        # Venus callback/wbcinterfacevenus-se        2431/tcp                        # tcp side effectsvenus-se        2431/udp                        # udp sftp side effectcodasrv         2432/tcp                        # not usedcodasrv         2432/udp                        # server portcodasrv-se      2433/tcp                        # tcp side effectscodasrv-se      2433/udp                        # udp sftp side effectmon             2583/tcp                        # MON trapsmon             2583/udpdict            2628/tcp                        # Dictionary serverdict            2628/udp

I dunno about anyone else here, but if I was blind, I sure as hellwouldn't want to listen to all of that. And as I pointed out in myimmediately previous post, this isn't ASCII-art either.

Remember folks, at this very moment in Gemini space, there are AT LEAST113,310 pages of content, and that growth is logarithmic ;)

I hope that helps :)

Kindest regards,

-- Bradley D. ThorntonManager Network Serviceshttp://NorthTech.USTEL: +1.310.421.8268