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The article claims 90% of the space is still available.
by jsprogrammer 12y ago
The article claims 90% of the space is still available.
- wongarsu 12y agoBecause nobody actually registers their ports. It's a multi-month process with little benefit to anyone.
- vacri 12y agoAnd even then, it doesn't matter because it's still simply convention. The internet won't break for anyone if I serve something other than mysql on port 3306. There's only a few port numbers where the public edifice around them is so huge that they really can't be that mobile - web (two ports), mail (six or so), dns (one port) and so forth.
- bmn_ 12y agoNot quiet. The last 25%, i.e. ports 49152-65535, are by design excluded from registration. See RFC 6335 §6.