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Dropbox has an IANA port number now
- ars 17y agoPort 17500 tcp and udp.
- mey 17y agoIs the dropbox protocol specified anywhere? Edit: My google-fu isn't finding anything.
- jazzychad 17y agoI'm guessing not at the moment. But, if you are intrepid you could fire up Wireshark and start dropping/sharing/deleting files and see what happens. This actually sounds like fun, however I am otherwise indisposed right now.
- freetard 17y agoNo need to do that, their linux client is open source IIRC.
- brlewis 17y agoThe program that talks to their daemon is open source. The daemon itself is not.
- freetard 17y agoThat's why I said their "client".
- brlewis 17y agoThe daemon is also a client. It talks to their server.
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- mbrubeck 17y agoThe client is split into two parts. The "dropboxd" daemon, which talks the server, is proprietary. The "nautilus-dropbox" plugin, which integrates with the GNOME desktop, is under GPL. The RPC protocol between nautilus-dropbox and dropboxd is documented. But (as far as I know) the network protocol between dropboxd and the server is not.
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- shaddi 17y agoPardon my ignorance, but how big of a deal is this? It seems pretty much anyone can make something a "well-known port". My quick check found at least 5 more (non-Dropbox) ports added today. In any case, I'm sure this can only be good for Dropbox and its users. Congrats to the team!
- jf 17y agoCongrats enki!
- sjs 17y agoLet us know whey they have a client that doesn't bring my workstation to its knees every 1/2 hour.
- mahmud 17y agoA CLI client that isn't an unsupported python script. Hello? win32?
- klon 17y agoIs the Dropbox protocol open and has an RFC? If not I think IANA should revise their practices to only allow registration of ports for protocols that do.
- stingraycharles 17y agoWhy is that ? IANA's task is to coordinate the assignment of, among others, port numbers, not to promote free / open software.
- nailer 17y agoYes, but the post you're replying to is discussing open protocols, not free software or OSS.
- eli 17y agoOK, but making sure two people don't try to use the same port for different things doesn't have much to do with making sure whatever they're doing is documented. Surely, you wouldn't want to create a new service that defaults to a port already in common use, but unlisted because the protocol didn't meet someone's definition of open.
- the_real_r2d2 17y agoSo bad nobody will use it. Many enterprise firewalls only allow port 80 today and a bunch of well know applications.
- rbranson 17y agoUmm... this doesn't matter. This protocol is only for detecting and copying files that are on computers in your immediate LAN.
- frankus 17y agoAm I the only one that read that as "I am not a port number now"?