Does anyone think it would be useful to add the ability to specify
port ranges with `--bind-address'? I received a patch that adds that
feature by extending the `--bind-address' syntax to allow things like
`--bind-address=1.2.3.4:704' and `--bind-address=1.2.3.4:700-1000'.
I have no use for this functionality, but I'd like to know if someone
else might find this useful. Since the patch does require additional
work to be applied, and since it might interfere with Mauro's IPv6
work, I'd like to check how useful it is first.
The submitter, Turi Peter, says:
Well, a normal user has nothing to do with this patch, but in a
few cases, it's required to do operations from the lower ports.
Here at ELTE I've run into this poblem: I wanted to fetch http(s)
data form a server, where the connections are allowed only from
privilegized ports. Messing with netcat and openssl is quite
messy and I wanted an "elegant" solution, this is why I wrote this
patch.
What do you think? Mauro, could you comment on this?
