Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote on Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:39 AM -0500: > On 18.03.07 14:13, Albert Dengg wrote: > > and everything that is for communication with the users can in > > prinziple run on any port you want, since you can tell then how to > > configure your clients, but there is no mechanism to tell other > > smtp servers "talk to me on port 666" or something. > > Yes, and ... ? I miss your point. Of course you can run any service > on any port. But there's good standard on what services run at what > ports and using different port is usually harder to configure, > detect etc etc... so better us well-known (assigned) ports.
Actually, there is a standardized way to communicate ports for a given service via DNS: SRV records. Except that almost nobody uses them :) Since this mechanism did not exist until recently, MTA's pay no attention to it, as far as I know. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
