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It's not a standard if it was never adopted. The port assignment document has two practical uses: 1) To cite it in a smart hacker news comment 2) To show alarm
by stefan_ 5y ago
It's not a standard if it was never adopted. The port assignment document has two practical uses:
1) To cite it in a smart hacker news comment
2) To show alarming text in "security scans" to gullible people
Seriously, google "commplex" and all you find is confused home users thinking they got a trojan of sorts. In 2021, it is purely a drain on everyones nerves.
- smaudet 5y agoWhat about Dns, smtp, http, https, ftp, ssh, sftp, etc.? Pretty sure those are not drains on everybody's nerves. Devs bashing standards cause they don't want to follow the rules which make things work well is a drain on everyone's nerves. But maybe I have misunderstood the document (didn't read). Standards are nice, except when they are mostly geared towards one company. Then yeah, it would be better to have SRV records and discourage default port usage such as Apple is doing. If we could go back in time, forcing an app layer (e.g. an ssh header) over a port might have been helpful, port conflicts might have been less common and you could have even eliminated root only ports. At any rate let's not break the web because some lazy mofo doesn't want to get off their couch.