5 ms·The real solution is to move beyond the ridiculous limitation of 65535 ports to choose from.by superobserver 10y agoThe real solution is to move beyond the ridiculous limitation of 65535 ports to choose from.tracker1 10y agoOr just use ipv6, which would be insane to even guess at the IP.Sephr 10y agoAttackers can still scan the IPv6 subnets owned by you if you are being specifically targetted.knorker 10y agoDepends if you have entropy in your addresses or not. 585 years to scan a single /64 at one billion packets per second.mwpmaybe 10y agoI mean, I'm sure a 16-bit integer for the port number didn't seem ridiculous when TCP was invented in 1974 or whenever.